robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) (01/03/84)
References: The "Norton utilities" for the IBM PC are distributed on a double single-sided floppy diskette. That is, the floppy has notches in both sides to enable writing, and it has two timing holes. The floppy can be inserted in a drive either side up, and it looks like a (different) one-sided floppy on each side. Norton did this so that all of his software (over 160k) can be placed on one floppy which any drive (even a one-sided drive) can read. - Keremath, care of: Robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1 or: allegra!eosp1
rao@utcsstat.UUCP (Eli Posner) (01/05/84)
It's no big deal to double-side a single sided floppy disk ! Just take a hole puncher and do it! B -> but carefully! I've done it five times already and it's worked each time, ones lasted for a year and a half ago and still works.
johnl@tekecs.UUCP (John Light) (01/06/84)
Peter Norton is clever and saved some money. Keep in mind that the most intelligent thing anybody will do with his "flippy" disk is copy the contents onto another disk (preferably a 320k one) and put the flippy disk in a safe place, hopefully never used again. This is far different from actually using a flippy on a day-to-day basis. John Light Tektronix, Inc.