Re: APDA and 800k floppies

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From: Bryan Stearns
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1987 05:47

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In article <1087@g.cs.cmu.edu> fryd@g.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Fryd) writes:
>Well I just got Version 2.0B1 of MPW Pascal in the mail
>from APDA. It's an 800K HFS floppy, but they ship it on 
>a TDK single sided disk.  
>
>Since MPW is an Apple product, I guess Apple now endorses
>using both sides of a Single Sided Floppy.

Yes, MPW is an Apple product, but it's produced (disks & docs
duplicated, packaged, etc.) by APDA, a separate company. We
don't have any control over them, but I'll mention this to
our APDA coordinator.

No, Apple still does not endorse use of single-side-certified
floppies as double-sided; individually, there are those within
Apple that have had success with this, but (personal opinion)
I feel that my data is too valuable to risk for a couple of 
bucks per disk (No flames about the value of *my* data, 
pleeze! :-) ).

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Bryan Stearns
Developer Technical Support
Apple Computer, Inc.

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From: stearns@apple.UUCP (Bryan Stearns)
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Subject: Re: APDA and 800k floppies
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 01:47:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 01:47:43 1987
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Keywords: single sided APDA floppy

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