Re: Buying Apple Floppys

[marvinmiller@hotmail.com (Marvin Miller)]

Hi RubyWand;

Those are 3.5's (MeritLine) I know it's a good deal and was planning
on taking advantage of it. MeritLine won't ship to Canada though, so I
have to arrange a relay point.

The ones I was talking about were 5.25's - I should have specified.
It's the Quad Density in the specs that made me wonder...

Question: Assuming I have 3.5's - Do those old games and progs that
were on 5.25's spanning several disks wokr on 3.5's?

I actually wanted the real floppy floppy's as well

Best;
Marvin

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 04:05:08 -0600, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>Marvin Miller writes ...
>> 
>> Hi;
>> 
>> 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 type designation and 96 TPI sounds like double density. Another
>indicator would be the absence of a hole in the upper left corner. If you do
>not trust the seller's information, you could shop elsewhere.
>
>     The deal on Meritline (500 3.5" DS/DD for $20 + postage) looks good.
>(See http://store.yahoo.com/meritline/500pcsflopdi.html .)
>
>
>
>Rubywand