Subj : Re: Macintosh echo
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Dave Drum
Date : Sun Mar 05 2017 07:15:45

-=> Tony Langdon wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> Nearly all of my 5.25" disks were flippys. I first used a train
 DD> conductors ticket punch to nibble the notch at the proper location.

 TL> Yeah, I'm sure just about all of my old Apple disks were flippys too.
 TL> You know, high school student, not a lot of cash, so flippys halved my
 TL> costs. :)

 DD> Then one of the specialist suppliers of floppy disks offered the
 DD> notcher at a good price (free with minimum purchase IIRC) and the rest,
 DD> as they say, is now overwritten.

 TL> Nice one. A notcher would have made my life easier. :)

Also the metallic looking wrap around sticky-back tabs I used to make 
Read-only 3.5" freebie disks writable.  Bv)=

Now disks of any sort are getting hard to find .... everything is either on SD 
cards, CD/DVD disks or thumb drives.  FEH!

.... Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn't do again.
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