Re: apple 2 question

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Pim Blokland writes ... 

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>
> But if savage300 doesn't like to cut his diskettes up with scissors,
> there are other possibilities.
> I recall "double sided" diskette being sold that had notches at both
> sides. They also were more expensive... Don't remember what brand they
> were, though. Doubt if they are still around.
> There also used to be "diskette doublers", small devices which looked a
> bit like perforators and which cut very neat notches in disks. These
> things are out of sale too, I presume.


     Like Steve Sanders, we used a hole punch for years. Finally, we got
one of the diskette notchers-- much better. As you suggest, the notchers
are not as common as they used to be. Some office supply places may have
them.


> The last option is to remove the write-protect detector from the disk
> drive, so that it can write any disks, whether they have been notched or
> not. I'm not sure how this was done, but a friend of mine did it

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     Yes; this was a fairly popular mod back in the 80's. Steve Buggie's
famous "Bugg Drives" include a switch which lets you turn OFF Write
Protect detection.




Rubywand