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Re: Source for IIGS system disks



a2user@noemail.nonet (a2user) writes:
>Small correction.  That would be Double Density 3.5" disk/drive, not low
>density. I believe low density would refer to the 400K drives the original
>Mac 128K used. By the time the Apple IIgs came out in 1986, Apple had
>switched all their 3.5" drives over to the 800K (720K for the rest of the
>computing industry) Double Density 3.5" drives.

Even smaller correction. The 400KB 3.5" diskette is Single Sided Double Density.
I do not believe that 3.5" diskettes ever came in Single Density versions, just
Double, High and Extra densities [720, 1440 & 2880 KB formatted on a PC].
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia