Re: New Dysan 5.25 double sided/double density hard case

["Mark Percival" <mark@syndicomm.com>]

Linards Ticmanis wrote:

> I seem to remember that the Apple II drives are double density  (but of
> course it's true that they are single sided).

Single density or double density 5.25" disks perform identically as far
as a Disk ][ is concerned.  5.25" high density disks on the other hand
do not work at all.

> AFAIK, single density 5.25" disks were in use for a very short time only
> and stored only about 70-90K per side, depending on the format.

No, this is not right.  both single density and double density disks
store 140K and a side.

-- Mark

DiskMaker 8

http://www.syndicomm.com/~mark/DM8/