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From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <(SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com)>
Date: Wed Jun 17 12:59:19 1998

yes, i did the same with apple ][ floppies. i never used the special tool to
punch the index hole as a sharp x-acto knife worked well. i do have one box of
flippies at home and i never had a problem with using the "wrong" side.

In a message dated 98-06-17 12:33:56 EDT, philip belben put forth:

<< Likewise the Commodore 8-bitters. In the early 1980s, I was one of the
 first in my school (I was 14 or so at the time) to own a floppy disk
 (yes, a disk, not a drive). I had heard of "flippy disks" with two
 index holes, which you could turn over, thus using both surfaces in a
 single sided drive. But I didn't realise you needed to give it a second
 index hole.
 
 So I just cut a second write-permit notch and turned it over. It
 worked! Commodore 4040 didn't use the index hole!
 
 Philip. >>
Received on Wed Jun 17 1998 - 12:59:19 BST