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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by foolrush on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:07PM (#20596152)
Write protect == hole punch

Writable == tape

Find me someone who used 5.25 who didn’t do this and I’ll fight you.

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by thanatos519 on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:04PM (#20596633)
I punched holes in the corners of my 5.25" disks and kept them in a ring binder.

Then there were things like fdformat ... because software had a very close relationship with the hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_(DOS)

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