Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : BORAXMAN
From : Cougar428
Date : Wed Apr 30 2025 09:56 pm

-=> Quoting Boraxman to Cougar428 <=-

 Bo> I didn't occur to me know (because I never really thought about it),
 Bo> that a SS disk would just be a DS disk sold as a SS disk, perhaps
 Bo> simply because one side of the disk failed a QC check. 
 Bo> Makes sense now.  You manufacture DS disks.  If both sides are bad,
 Bo> bin it. If one side is bad, use the other side in a SS disk.  If both
 Bo> pass, its a DS disk. Is that how it worked?

 So the story goes, at least that was the scuttlebut back in the day.
 Not sure if it was actually true, but it sounds reasonable. I notched
 them and used them anyway. I will say I had a few with bad sectors, but
 they never damaged my drive due to spinning the opposite way when
 inserted upside down (which was also said at the time).

 Have a great day!

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