Re: Apple IIc modifications

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

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.

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

:-D

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