1 Sep
2022
1 Sep
'22
3:12 p.m.
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.)
8" "Flippies" were manufactured pretty early on in the 1970s. I have
several of them--they have a label on each side and two index apertures
in the jacket.
If anyone's curious, I can post a photo of one (imgur or the like)
--Chuck