Re: 3.5" drive(s) with //e - how?

[Doug Browning <vgt507@freenet.mb.ca>]

I would also suggest zapping those MS disks with a videocasette eraser 
before reformatting them to ProDOS, just to be on the safe side...

Doug Browning
vgt507@freenet.mb.ca
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/~vgt507

On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 LOSETHECAPITALWORDSedhel@bigfoot.com wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:22:07 GMT, lemenst@fhsmtp.fh.trw.com (Thomas
> LeMense) wrote:
> 
> >where do I find 3.5" drives for an enhanced
> >//e?
> 
> www.allelec.com
> Quality Computers? 1-800-777-3642
> http://www.waynes.com/Business/WaynesComputer/Index.html-ssi
> 
> >What are they called?
> 
> UniDisk 3.5--I don't know the name of the card they attach to, tho.
> 
> >Can I use some of the DD or HD floppy disks that I had once used with
> >my wintel box?
> 
> Don't count on reading them via the //e too easily, but you can use
> the same disks (re-formatted for //e, of course).  Double-density is
> what you want.  Personally, I've used high-density ones formatted for
> double density with no problems at all, but I wouldn't advise you to
> do the same, if possible.  If you want to use high-density disks to
> their fullest potential, you'll need an Apple SuperDrive, instead, but
> the cards that they attach to are very hard to find.
> --