On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Chris Tofu wrote:
this I was told. Anyone?
The VERY EARLIEST 3.5" floppies did not have shutters AT ALL.
Later 3.5" floppies had a spring loaded manual shutter; you opened it
manually, at which point it latched, and then there was a specific point
on the disk to squeeze ("PINCH") that would release the latch and the
spring would close it.
I used an SMC-70 with those disks at Comdex one year.
Later 3.5" floppies had the current "automatic" shutter. BUT, for many
years, it still had the "PINCH" spot label. THEN, it just had an arrow
pointing to that spot, but because that also indicated which end of the
disk to put into the drive (DUH.), there wasn't a need to remove that
mark.
When I finally got an SMC-70 ~15 years ago, it had modern style drives.
Didn't the 600RPM "full height" 3.5" drives (the earliest
("FIRST"??) 3.5"
drives?) accept modern "auto-shutter" disks?