On 8/31/22 13:33, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > Someone on Fesse Bouc just found a sealed box of SS/SD 8" floppies in > their garage. > > Most FB types are too young to know 8" disks existed, of course. > > Someone suggested punching a notch in them and using both sides. > > Was that even possible on 8" disks? > > (TBH single-sided actually-floppy floppies are before my time and I > never used 'em. When they were on low-end American 8-bit home > computers, this impecunious young Brit couldn't afford floppy drives > at all. By the time I could, 5.25" DS/DD was the cheapest drive and > cheapest media.)
8" "Flippies" were manufactured pretty early on in the 1970s. I have several of them--they have a label on each side and two index apertures in the jacket. If anyone's curious, I can post a photo of one (imgur or the like) --Chuck
