Date   : Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:28:12 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: My New Baby Has Arrived!

In article <43517A3E.4080701@...>, Tim Fardell
<tim.fardell@...> writes

>Yes, that's the term! Never tried them myself, though. Did you cut both the 
>write-protect notch and the index holes, or just the notch? I should imagine it 
>would be quite fiddly to cut the index holes.

I still have a stamp (produced for the single-sided 1541 drive for the
Commodore 64, which didn't use the index hole.) This can be used to
neatly cut the second write-protect hole in a floppy disc, allowing it
to be flipped over and the other side used.  But you're correct in that
to use it on the BBC, it was necessary to cut a notch in the disk jacket
with a pair of scissors to allow the drive to see the index hole in the
disc.