Re: Disk Flipping and Two Disk???

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Sean Fahey wrote:
>   To: heuser.marcus
>   Re: Re: Disk Flipping and Two Disk???
>   By: heuser.marcus to comp.sys.apple2 on Mon Jun 04 2007 12:35 pm
>
>  > True or not - I find this explanation quite plausible as I, too, never
>  > had a "modified to use both sides disk" fail on me.
>  > 
>  > That may have changed with 3 1/2" floppies but I doubt it.
>
> I think the no-flippy rule really only applied to the hard sector media of the
> day, and early on, everyone was just being overly cautious with the soft sector
> media.
>
> And of course, diskette manufacturers didn't want to do anything to dispel that
> thinking.

That would explain the occasional note in a publication of the day, but
manufacturers haven't been a factor for over a decade.  The supposed
"problem" now has the status of an urban myth.

We should all do what we can to see that truth trumps myth.

*** Floppies work fine upside down and (rotating) backwards! ***

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