Re: Apple IIc modifications

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"D Finnigan" <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote in message dog_cow-1319907219@macgui.com">news:dog_cow-1319907219@macgui.com...
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Finally you can hardly find HD 1.4mb disks now let alone DD disks so
>>>> your going to have to order them, at that point once you get disks
>>>> ordered and shipped, a computer that can actually read the silly
>>>> things in apple format, and fuss with making a mix disk you might as
>>>> well just get a box of 5.25 DD disks and use as normal, or use
>>>> something like apple game server for the programs that load fully in
>>>> ram ... killing the need for floppies anyway.
>>> 
>>> You can cover the hole on a HD disk and use as a DD disk.  I do it all
>>> the time without any issues.
>>> 
>>> That said, I completely agree with your assessment.
>>> 
>>> I'll also add that if I want to play II games on the big 
>>> screen with minimum fuss, then I'll use an emulator. 
>> 
>> Apparently it's been a while since this topic came up here... 
>> 
>> HD 3.5" disks are _not_ reliable media for Apple's DD drives. 
>> They may appear to work for a while, but not uniformly on all 
>> drives, and after some time they often lose data, becoming 
>> unreadable. 
> 
> This is the part where I dance in and state that I have 
> several HD disks which I formatted as 800k for the IIgs 
> back in 2004-05, which still work today. 

I have a few that worked, a few that did not. 

> Yeah, I've read the warnings, but it'll never happen to me! 

I heeded the warnings somewhat, making sure that I had backups 
of the stuff I put on them, so that I'd be able to recover had 
they succumbed to the curse of the warnings given. 

> :-D

<[8o} 

Bill