[cctalk] Re: Flipping an 8" diskette

Are they IBM preformatted? If so they could work in someone's RX01/RX02. C On 9/1/2022 7:10 AM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > > On 8/31/22 13:33, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: >> Someone on Fesse Bouc just found a sealed box of SS/SD 8" floppies in >> their garage. >> >> Most FB types are too young to know 8" disks existed, of course. >> >> Someone suggested punching a notch in them and using both sides. >> >> Was that even possible on 8" disks? >> >> (TBH single-sided actually-floppy floppies are before my time and I >> never used 'em. When they were on low-end American 8-bit home >> computers, this impecunious young Brit couldn't afford floppy drives >> at all. By the time I could, 5.25" DS/DD was the cheapest drive and >> cheapest media.) >> > It would be possible but for the drives mostly being double sided. > The most useful thing for a notcher was to make AOL and other > mailer diskettes writable.  Never did the double side thing > much if ever. > > Sad day when AOL changed to CDs and you then had to make > coasters or trash them. > thanks > Jim >