Date   : Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:26:16 +0100
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: Re-using floppies

In article <4BA90683.2010604@...>, Pete Turnbull
<pete@...> writes

>The earliest 3.5" disks had a latch so you opened the shutter, which 
>stayed open, to put it in the drive, and when you removed it later, you 
>pinched the edge to let the shutter close.  I still have a few of those.

Ah, yes, I remember those.  They seemed to go with the ACT Apricot
series of computers, which were amongst the first machines to use MS-DOS
after the PC.  The drive mechs were made by Sony.

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