Re: appleworks program

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

GGGNH wrote:

>In order to use both sides you need to make a notch at the 
>same place on the opposite edge as the one that is there. You can use a 
>knife, hole punch, or a special tool made to the notch that was 
>available for a time. To use the backside of the floppy to store data, 
>you'll need to insert the floppy upside down. The Apple 5 1/4" drives 
>have heads on the top of the drive only. There was a company that made 
>external drives, for a while, that copied both sides of the disk, as all 
>computers on the DOS side did, but they are very rare.

Although this isn't relevant to the original question, note that the
data on the back side of a "flippy" disk is backward relative to
the "back" (the top, actually) of a two-sided disk.

The two ways of using both sides of a disk are fundamentally
incompatible.

-michael

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