Re: Disk Flipping and Two Disk???

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

On Jun 4, 8:31 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In practice, "flippy" disks are just as reliable as single-direction
> disks.
>
> People made up lots of reasons about why this wouldn't work, but except
> for the truly rare case of *single-sided* media, there was never any
> actual evidence, since they work perfectly.
>
> The rule for Apple 5.25" disks is "if it formats, it works"--and works
> for a very long time.
>
> Appleworks was distributed as a "flippy", as were most applications as
> it became clear that there was no downside (except being able to access
> only one side at a time--but you could always copy the back to another
> disk if you needed that).

I read somewhere that the manufacturer of the disk always coated
both sides of the disk in equal quality because at this stage of the
production process it couldn't be determined how the disk was
later inserted into its jacket.

True or not - I find this explanation quite plausible as I, too, never
had a "modified to use both sides disk" fail on me.

That may have changed with 3 1/2" floppies but I doubt it.

bye
Marcus