User`s guide

GSE-Reactive ( http://www.gse-reactive.com/ ) sells boxes of 10 5.25" DD
floppies for $5.
Albert Franklin (email: [e-mail]) sells 5.25" DS/DD diskettes.
XDR2.com ( http://www.xdr2.com/ click on "Disks") sells 5.25" and 3.5" DD
diskettes in bulk (e.g. 50 3.5" for $13).
Meritline.com ( http://store.yahoo.com/meritline/floppydisk.html ) sells 3.5" DD
diskettes in bulk (e.g. 100 for $14).
Peripheral Manufacturing, Inc (800-468-6888; email: [e-mail] )
sells 5.25" DD diskettes in 10 packs ($2.95) and 50 packs (with sleeves,
$15.00)..
Commodore 64 & 128 Products ( http://www.oldsoftware.com/Commodore.html search
the page for disks for sale) sells 5.25" & 3.5" DD diskettes.
Floppydisk.com ( http://www.floppydisks.com/ ) sells 5.25" and 3.5" DS/DD
diskettes.
Check the non-Apple sections on eBay. Sometimes you'll see boxes of a thousand
disks going for the cost of shipping -- if they're listed outside of Vintage
Apple they seem to go a lot cheaper.
Thrift shops: you may find packs of used 5.25" DD diskettes at bargain prices.
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From: David Wilson
009- Where can I find out about different floppy disk
formats?
Here is a table of floppy disk formats I have built up over the years:
disk speed rate encode trk sector trk/hd size disk
size" rpm kb/s scheme kb cnt*sz count kBytes type
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8 360 500 FM 41.67 26*128 77/1 260 SSSD (8)
8 360 500 FM 41.67 26*128 77/2 520 DSSD (8)
8 360 500 MFM 83.33 26*256 77/1 520 SSDD (9)
8 360 500 MFM 83.33 26*256 77/2 1040 DSDD (9)
5.25 300 250 FM 25.00 8*256 40/1 80 SSSD
5.25 300 250 FM 25.00 8*256 40/2 160 DSSD
5.25 300 245 GCR 49.00 16*256 35/1 140 SSDD (1)
5.25 300 250 MFM 50.00 8*512 40/1 160 SSDD (3)
5.25 300 250 MFM 50.00 9*512 40/1 180 SSDD (3)
5.25 300 250 MFM 50.00 8*512 40/2 320 DSDD (3)
5.25 300 250 MFM 50.00 9*512 40/2 360 DSDD (3)
5.25 300 250 MFM 50.00 9*512 80/2 720 DSDD
5.25 360 300 MFM 50.00 9*512 40/2 360 DSDD (4)
5.25 360 300 MFM 50.00 9*512 80/2 720 DSDD