Re: apple 2 question

[!smentzer@ecom.net (Steve Mentzer)]

>
>The reason I always heard for not punching and flipping ANY floppy was that
>a floppy has dust catchers inside and if you turn the disk backwards by 
>flipping it over it will probably unload the dust it's picked up straight
>into your drive's heads - or munge the dust catcher.  Floppies are so cheap
>anymore I can't imagine why anyone would bother, really.
>


Nah.. I used an apple IIe for like 5 years w/o a floppy drive failure, and used 
notched floppies all the time. Yes, the dust catcher thing was valid, but it 
never presented a problem for me, or any of my friends.

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