On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Tony Duell wrote:
Early 3.5" disks had a manual shutter, you had to
slide it open before
Was there an earlier type with no shutter at all?
YES
I have some Shugart 3.5" diskettes that have no shutter.
Shutters were NOT removed from them, they never had them,
nor provision for shutters.
I don't know to what extent those ever made it into mass production.
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