Re: Buying Apple Floppys

[marvinmiller@hotmail.com (Marvin Miller)]

Thanks everyone for the info!

Seeing it looks like they will work well, I'll go ahead and pursue
purchasing these disks. I wanted to confirm it as I'm looking at about
500 of them and they have to go from Florida--->Canada.

I wanted to make certain that they are correct and your answers have
enabled me to move on in the process! What threw me was the quad
density listing on the box.

Best;
Marvin Miller


On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 04:02:00 -0000,
salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) wrote:

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>Marvin Miller writes ...
>> I've got a lead on around 500 new Floppys. They are listed as DSDD but
>> the picture shows that they are MD2DD, Double Side, Quad Density, Soft
>> Sector, 96 TPI, with Hub Ring.
>> 
>> What do you think? Do these disks have 'the right stuff' for my //GS?
>
>The only difference between double density and quad density is that quad
>density was an 80-track format (vs. 40-track for double density).  I
>archived software for my BBS on double-density disks formatted in a
>high-density drive to quad density (5.25" HD drives also use 80 tracks). 
>720K on a disk that cost 10 cents at Computer City was the cheapest storage,
>on a per-megabyte basis, that you could get at the time.
>
>They ought to work just fine in Apple IIs if you reformat them.
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