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.