Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Dr. What
Date : Sat May 03 2025 08:23 am

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to STORMTROOPER <=-

 DW> I don't ever remember seeing one marked SD, either, but they may have
 DW> been before my time.  The first computer I got that used floppies used
 DW> the DS/DD 360k 5.25" disks.

I have a few that I got for my Commodore 64, Kaypro and TRS-80.

But double sided became a better deal since you, effectively, got 2 disks for
the price of 1 for the single-sided systems.

What you had to watch out for is using a single sided disk in a double sided
drive since the single sided disks didn't have the material on the other side
to store the data.


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