Re: Can I tell if a floppy is double sided by appearance?

[ljsilicon@aol.com (LJSILICON)]

Pim wrote...

>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.
>

Actually, there are drives that positioned the 5.25 r/w head on the top instead
of the bottom.  We once had a speaker at our club from 3M that confirmed that
both sides are verified because there was no standard location, aboove or
below, for the r/w head.

LJSilicon