Re: Disk transfers help please

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <42d19912$0$5731$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com>,
Scott Alfter <salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> In article <42D0CB3A.30C5AF8F@no.spam>, Simon  <no.spam@no.spam> wrote:
>>Andy McFadden a icrit :
>>> It's possible there's nothing there.  Generally speaking, if you don't
>>> see a write-protect notch cut on both sides, there probably isn't anything
>>> on the back.
>>
>> They are indeed cut on both sides - seems the owner didn't have much
>> disks ;-)
> 
> He probably had a disk notcher.  They were somewhat common back in the day. 
> (I think I still have one or two of them kicking around somewhere...)
> 
> You could also half-ass the job with a one-hole punch (making a mostly round
> hole) or scissors (making a wedge-shaped notch), but a disk notcher made a
> squared-off notch that was most likely to work the first time.

I used to use a pair of small scissors for that.  It looked less tidy, but
it worked fine.

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Schlyter,  Grev Turegatan 40,  SE-114 38 Stockholm,  SWEDEN
e-mail:  pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se
WWW:     http://stjarnhimlen.se/