Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : STORMTROOPER
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Fri May 02 2025 09:15:00

>  DW> The only experience I had with SS floppies was when using a C64.  IIRC,

> Single sided floppies were pretty ubiquitous for a time there..  what I have
> never seen is the SD portion... single density.... I was warned about
> purchasing SD disks when I first bought a few floppies for school.  Presumably
> they hold less than a DD disk does in realation to an HD floppy. But in
> practice although they must've been around at some point, I never saw one
> either in a store, or in the wild....

I don't ever remember seeing one marked SD, either, but they may have been
before my time.  The first computer I got that used floppies used the DS/DD
360k 5.25" disks.


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