Diskette hole maker

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Actually, the 700KB 3.5 in floppies are double sided. I had several 
hundred 700KB floppies left over from the BCS Atari group. I punched a 
bunch of them. I think about 70% formatted ok. Any one that failed for 
format went to the wastebasket. In any case, Kevin Gleason asked for it. 
Essentially, diskettes are stamped out of a single sheet. We used to do 
the same thing for single sided 5.25in. I stopped using diskettes for most 
things quite a while ago. When most software was distributed on 
diskettes, I would make a complete copy of the software, and use those 
as working copies. I never used them as first line diskettes. They make 
decent sneaker nets. 

On 24 Jan 00, at 15:56, John Abreau wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> > Anyone have a need or desire for a tool that punches the hole to convert a 
> > 700KB 3.5 in floppy to a 1.44MB floppy. If anyone wants it, I'll bring it 
> > to the next BLU meeting.
> 
> I've heard lots of horror stories about those. Seems that single-sided
> floppies are made from materials that failed to pass inspection for
> double-sided use. I'd say punching that hole is asking for your data to
> become corrupted.
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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