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Re: Transfering Disk Images from PC to Apple II
- Subject: Re: Transfering Disk Images from PC to Apple II
- From: "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 16:24:54 -0400
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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"Bruce Baker" <Bruce.Baker@juge.com> wrote in message
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: You could always buy some of the software I am trying
: to sell over on bidville or from many other people trying
: to sell stuff.
:
: To do this right I think you need a 3.5" drive because
: software in it's bundled form is actually larger than
: the 5.25" capacity of 140k.
In some formats yes, but the problem lies in that
a .DSK image is exactly 140K and a formatted blank
140K physical disk has nearly 4K used already, so
the image will not fit on it.
: So you need a larger drive. 3.5" drives are
: 800k standard DD.
This is absolutely correct.
Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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Email - willy46pa @ comcast DOT net
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