Date   : Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:07:26 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: My New Baby Has Arrived!

They were manufactured by a company in Chadderton (a couple of 
miles away from BeebMaster Towers) and branded as Flippy Discs.  I
don't know if I have any left but as I remember, they had index holes
at either side of the hub ring and a write protect notch at both sides
so you could literally turn them over and use both sides.

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Fardell
To:  BBC Mailing List <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:53:02 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] My New Baby Has Arrived!

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

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.