Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”
by xxs on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:21PM
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The 1st thing you do on apple II diskettes (5.25") was using a scissors to allow the other side to be writable as well.
No exceptions (alternatively you just break the plastic switch that tells if there is copy-write protection, on the floppy driver, itself)
I have taken the floppy out of the sleeves to dry them out as the entirety of my collection fell in the aquarium.
```just a word of warning, copy everything off them [commercially-available flippable 5.25" BBC Micro disks] quick, as the 'side2' goes backwards to the cotton cloth cleaner inside the 5 1/4" case, so basically all the crap caught in it then end up coming out when playing other flip side :('''
(No idea how common this phenomenon might have been! - I've always had double-sided drives, so I've always used the other side of the disk in the normal fashion.)