3-1/2" Floppy Market Cornered

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu May 22 15:52:01 2003

> > 3":
> > I don't think that there are any density differences, but single and
> > double sided diskettes are different. I don't remember the difference -
> > holes?

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
> This is the confusing one IMHO. All 3" disks are double sided, but some
> drives are single-head and use the disks as 'flippies'.

Thanks
I couldn't remember for sure.
But, IIRC, the double sided drives would not let you insert a diskette
upside down, and therefore were incapable of reading the second side of a
flippy other than backwards, which was not supported by the controllers.
Received on Thu May 22 2003 - 15:52:01 BST