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

[Pim Blokland <pDOTblokland@spcgroup.nl>]

George Clark wrote:
> 
>> Mainly, "Single-sided" means just 'side one' is guaranteed;
>> "Double-sided" means both sides are guaranteed. Users have been notching
> 
> I'd heard once upon a time that this was a fallacy: the same disk used in
> a PC would be written on one side, while Apple II disk drives would
> actually be using the opposite side. To say one side is "guaranteed",

Yeah, I've heard such stories too, but they are not true. Believe me, I
know.
In all probability, they were caused by people who assumed that the top
side of the disk was used, and then heard that there were disks of which
the bottom sides were used; so they concluded that there were different
systems.
Or, it was a vicious joke, introduced by an evil individual with the
sole purpose of creating confusion.

In reality, all disks had only the bottom side used. And tested.
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Pim Blokland
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