Re: Will IBM 360 Floppies work in Apple ][ Drives?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <C-KdnaXNzue_10bYnZ2dnUVZ_riknZ2d@giganews.com>,
Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us> wrote:
>In article <1171893268.411041.183420@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>KPR <krauer@rpmtec.com> wrote:
>>Will IBM 360 Floppies work in Apple ][ Drives?
>>
>>I finnaly cleand up my basement and have about 400+  5 1/4 IMB 360k
>>Floppies..
>
>At first, your subject line brought up the thought "floppies for a
>System/360?"    Leaving off the "K" from "360K" had that effect.
>
>The weird thing is that I'm nowhere near old enough to have ever used one of
>those beasts. :-) 

You should be happy for that!  :-)

>I suspect they never used floppy disks of any sort, let
>alone 5.25" floppies.

Actually, the floppy was invented by IBM, back in the early 1970's.
The first floppes were 8" floppies though, holding some 240 KBytes
each (8" SSSD = Single Sided Single Density).  After a while double
density and double sided 8" floppies were introduced.  And still
later the 5.25" mini-floppy was introduced.


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