Apple II 800K Diskettes?

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Wed Sep 26 05:55:00 2001

> Why do people insist on calling them 720 K disks? There is no such stupid
> invention. They're 1 MB disks, not 720 K, not 800 K, not 880 K.
> Oh, and there are no 1.44 MB disks either.

True, they're not 1.44, they're 2MB... you can actually get 1.8MB on
on if you plow out the wind breaks... I've had some luck with 1.68
and 1.72 formatting, but the 1.8 is pretty chancy...

-dq
 
Received on Wed Sep 26 2001 - 05:55:00 BST