On Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 05:57 PM, Howard R. Katz wrote:
Do you all remember the big discussion way back when as to whether or not it was safe to do notching? I had people argue that turning the disk over caused it to spin in reverse, and all the dirt trapped in the lining would come back out. And some said the reverse side wasn't tested for problems--tho IIRC the Vic-20 drive used the opposite side of the disk than the Apple II, so the question was which side did disk manufacturers test before shipping? I for one never had a notched disk fail, and it was just amazing to be able to double your disk storage space just by making a small notch.
Hmmm.....wonder if notching my CFFA compactflash card would do the same thing........ :)
Later.................Howard
Heh. Today I made a bedroom become an Apple II Room. Going through 130k (?)
floppies I laughed at the thought of how far we'd come when I saw Howard's Flash Card
comment.
Today we have gigabytes on sticks. Then we had kilobytes on iron-oxide coated plastic.
But a visit to "then" every now and again is still weirdly satisfying.
Jeff G
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