13 Dec
2019
13 Dec
'19
6:06 p.m.
On 12/13/19 8:22 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 12/13/19 5:11 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
Must have been targeted at the home market as I don't
remember ever seeing them in any of the supplies catalogs
I dealt with. And there were numerous white papers
talking about why it was a really bad idea to spin
floppies in both directions.
bill
I never saw any flippies commercially made but
many
companies made punches for flippy 5.25" disks. I always
had to make my own for 8".
They were standard products. Let's see if I can find a period ad...
Well, not an ad, but a precise description:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/3M/3M_Diskette_Reference_Manual_May83.pdf
Page 8, top illustration. 3M added an "R" to the stock number for
"reversible". I have a few in my stash.