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Re: Disk Flipping and Two Disk???
To: heuser.marcus
Re: Re: Disk Flipping and Two Disk???
By: heuser.marcus to comp.sys.apple2 on Mon Jun 04 2007 12:35 pm
> 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.
I think the no-flippy rule really only applied to the hard sector media of the
day, and early on, everyone was just being overly cautious with the soft sector
media.
And of course, diskette manufacturers didn't want to do anything to dispel that
thinking.
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