hard-sector 5 1/4 disk

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Tue Oct 30 18:59:28 2001

At 10:23 AM 10/30/01 -0800, you wrote:
>1) NO, APPLE ][ IS NOT HARD SECTORED!
>Apple is COMPLETELY soft-sectored. While MOST machines that were
>soft-sectored started the track with the index pulse, Apple and Commodore
>ignored even the index pulse. Therefore, they would work with
>soft-sectored diskettes, hard-sectored diskettes, upside down diskettes
>with a write enable notch punched, etc.
>2) NO, it has nothing to do with using a 6502.

It's been a LONG time since i've used an apple II, I was just going by a
friend that always used hard-sector disks on his II.
Received on Tue Oct 30 2001 - 18:59:28 GMT