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Apple IIGS with PC Floppies
- Subject: Apple IIGS with PC Floppies
- From: "Mr-T" <jonthorp@-no-spam-bigpond.net.au>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 03:23:51 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au)
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:17676
Greetings,
I discovered something rather amazing the other day when bashing away on my
good old Apple IIGS. The older 720Kb 3 1/2" floppy disks are very hard to
get hold of these days, so I decided to try some 1.44Mb PC floppies.
Obviously, the computer didn't recognise what was on them because it
couldn't see the FAT filesystem, so I decided to format them on the Apple.
The IIGS formatted them with no problems at all, being able to store 720Kb
(or was it 800K?). I copied ALL of my GS/OS system disks to standard 1.44Mb
disks and worked fine with absolutely no data corruption.
Can this potentially damage my 3.5" floppy disk drive on the IIGS?