Re: Using both sides of DS DD disks

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Greg Weston (gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com) wrote:

: It's worth noting at this point that Apple II 5.25" drives write on the
: "wrong" side. If you have a single-sided disk, the label side is the
: one that was tested, but Apple II drives wrote to the bottom of an
: inserted floppy.

I wondered when someone would bring this up...

It made for some interesting dual-format disks.  Somewhere I have a
Hallmark animated greeting card that was sold to work on either an Apple
][ or on an Atari 800.  Either way, you stick the disk in the same way
because Apple's R/W head is on the bottom but Atari's R/W head was on top.
 8-)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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