Re: Apple IIGS with PC Floppies

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Bart <who@where.what> wrote in message
news:BAcd8.34$k87.59968@news.uswest.net...
> Take a 720/800 disk,  Take a 1.44 disk.  Get a strong light. Open the
slider
> door and expose the disk surface. Hold disk to eye and look at the light.
You
> will note: the former has a far darker look then the later. Why?  More
ferite
> in the coating.  different structures.  Don't use the new disks with a
taped
> hole.  T'ain't recomended...
>

Sounds like they could be used to "sneaker net" files from one computer to
another, but that's about it. If the data evaporates after an hour or a day,
no point in trying to keep files on there.
It might work to make the GS/OS install disks on a Mac, and get them loaded
on a IIgs, for example, but no point in trying to use them as a daily boot
disk for the IIgs if they go bad that fast.
-Paul