Re: How to use back side of 5.25 diskkette without punching

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On 5 Sep 2006, Warren Ernst wrote:

> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
> > Most "single-sided" disks actually came off the same line as the
> > double-sided disks.  And very few disks were actually tested, on
> > either side.
> 
> I can tell you *FOR A FACT* that when Beagle Bros was duplicating disks
> in-house (1987 and on, and possibly earlier), they were ALL purchased
> as single-sided disks, including for those products that shipped on
> both sides of one disk.

   Seeing as how many disk drives on various computers wrote to either
the top or bottom side of the disk, who's to say if a single sided disk is
for an Apple II, Atari, Commodore, TRS-80, TI99/4A, KayPro etc.  So, in
essence, a single-sided disk is every bit as good as a double-sided disk.
I've never had a disk failure no matter what system and drive I used them
on.