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Re: Apple 5.25 Diskettes?



ehillman@erinet.com (Ed Hillman) wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Does anyone know of a source for new (or like new) 5.25 floppy disks
>for the Apple //e?
>
>I know that High Density Disks will not work. Will double density or
>do I have to find single density?

Apple IIe uses Double Density disks.  Get the double
sided ones.  Notch the other side with a hole puncher.
Then record 140 kilobytes (about 143 thousand bytes
due to the non-metric nature of the kilobyte!) on each
side, flipping the disks as if it were a cassette tape.

280 kilobytes total.