Re: Which Apple II?

[Ed Eastman <noone@nowhere.net>]

Yes, the standard Apple 5.25" DOS only 'sees' 35 tracks, the other DOSs 
mentioned see up to 40.  (4k per track.)  The original Disk ][ was 
physically capable of reading a 36th track, most of the 1/2 height 
drives are capable of 40 when asked to do so.

I have patched DOS 3.3 (Pronto-DOS really) occasionally to do more, but 
Copy II+ tended to choke on the extra tracks.  Since C2+ was all I 
really ever used to copy files, that pretty much eliminated extra tracks 
as far as I was concerned.

:)

Exegete wrote:
> Just to make it interesting, the Franklin 2000 and 500 series had 160K 
> disk drives. They could also, of course, read and write 140K disks.
>
> Roy