12 Sep
2013
12 Sep
'13
10:37 p.m.
Thanks for the info guys. Helps a lot.
Phil
philip at neoncluster.com
Retro computing at: www.neoncluster.com
On Sep 13, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 09/12/2013 06:43 PM, Philip Lord wrote:
This may be a silly question, but I'm looking
for confirmation that
dssd (double sided single density) 8" floppies are usable in a sssd
(single sided single density) drive such as the Shugart SA800.
If so, can the floppy be manually flipped over and the other side
also be read and written to, therefore having both side containing
data?
I'm assuming that you're not trying to READ both sides of a disk written in a
double-sided drive. If that's the case, sure, you can make "flippies" very
easily with a hole punch. It was done all of the time--and some media makers even sold
them punched that way.
--Chuck