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Re: Did the Apple II use single-density 5.25" drives?

Subject: Re: Did the Apple II use single-density 5.25" drives?
From: barrym95838 <barrym95838@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 19:30:05 -0700 (PDT)
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It's been many years since I fired up my old Franklin, but I seem to remember that it had a modified DOS 3.3 system master (called FDOS, I think) that, among other things, allowed the internal drives to read and write 35-track and 40-track disks seamlessly.  What I never discovered is whether or not the standard Disk ][ drives were able to position their heads as far in as the internal Franklin drives.  I suppose that I could have tried booting the modified system master on my //e, but I never did, for some reason.  It might have been a good reason, but I just don't remember.

Mike

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