2 Sep
2022
2 Sep
'22
8:26 p.m.
For a flippy 8” disk you don’t need to punch a notch as the write control is opposite of
the 5.25. No notch is read-write. You will need to punch a new index hole in both sides
of the jacket though.
Pete
On Sep 1, 2022, at 4:10 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> 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.)
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