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Re: Can I tell if a floppy is double sided by appearance?
Richard Hall wrote:
>
> I remember Beagle Brothers musing that the old computers didn't all
> write on the same side of the disk. They wondered which side was
> "checked" and "guaranteed". I still do.
This was in one of those not-to-be-taken-too-seriously publications of
them, wasn't it? With all those 18th century drawings of early computer
technology, and the column "Ask Uncle Louie" and such?
Well, anyway, they could muse all they wanted, but they were wrong.
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