Re: Disk notcher

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"Michael Black" <et472@ncf.ca> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Peter Watson wrote:
>
>> "sfahey" <sfahey@a2central.com.remove-klk-this> wrote in message
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>>> You're all wimps. When I was a kid, I was sooo poor (after 
>>> shelling out
>>> $35-$40
>>> for a box of 10 SSDD disks) that I had to use my TEETH to nibble 
>>> that
>>> notch...
>>> and that was after I'd walked 10 miles to the 'local' 
>>> ComputerLand, in the
>>> snow, uphill both ways, through the ghetto.
>>
>> Walk? Luxury! I had to crawl for 20 miles, across broken glass, 
>> just to get
>> a single second-hand floppy disk that I could reuse.
>>
> Did the Apple II drive come with a blank floppy?
>

My Disk II drive, bought in 1980, came with three floppies.  DOS 3.3 
System Master, BASICS disk and yes a blank floppy.

Charlie