Date   : Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:13:20 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: My New Baby Has Arrived!

Isn't that what Flippy Discs did?  Were they widely used or were they
just a local thing round here?

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Fardell
To:   bbc-micro@...
Sent: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:11:23 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] My New Baby Has Arrived!

Tim Matthews wrote:
> and isn't there a notch on the opposite side to the write protect notch
> too?
> or is my memory mistaken...

No, you're thinking of 3.5" disks - they have the extra hole. I have heard tell 
that you can cut an additional notch in the other side of a 5.25" disk, and 
make it work either way up in the drive, but I can't understand how that worked 
unless the drive ignored the index hole as well.