Subj : Pascal
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Andy Ball
Date : Tue Jul 08 2003 08:50 pm

Hello Jasen,

  JB> 5.25" floppy diskettes are flexible, but until you've
    > seen an 8" floppy disk you haven't seen "floppy".

It's been a while, but I've used them in the past.  I also worked with 8" hard 
disks that had a transparent (perspex?) cover.  Head crashes on those things 
were something to see.

Thinking back to my school computer room days, mostly we had 5.25" 
double-density disks, either single or double- sided.  It was a big deal when 
we got a Winchester disk to serve the network.  :-)

I've had a few that were 'flippies': with a write protect notch on either side 
and two index holes.  You could format one side as a single-sided 
double-density disk, and then flip the disk over and format the other side too: 
handy if you had a single-head drive.  I saw the same concept on some 3" 
Amstrad diskettes too.

- Andy.

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