Re: How to use back side of 5.25 diskkette without punching

["Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> Most "single-sided" disks actually came off the same line as the
> double-sided disks.  And very few disks were actually tested, on
> either side.
>
> If you find a *real* single-sided disk, save it for a museum.  ;-)
>

I can tell you *FOR A FACT* that when Beagle Bros was duplicating disks
in-house (1987 and on, and possibly earlier), they were ALL purchased
as single-sided disks, including for those products that shipped on
both sides of one disk.

The duplicating machine would ignore the notch, so it didn't matter.
The disk return rate was the same for products shipped on single sides
versus both sides. We used disk-notchers in tech support to send out
double-sided disks to customers, and all of our disks were grabbed from
the same pile of blanks...

I still have a huge roll of blank Beagle Bros 5.25" disk labels that we
would hand-write text onto for disks we sent to customers. Now *theres*
a collector's item...

-Warr