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Yeah, I guess we all learned to write-protect the floppies the hard way... When you lose data you become a bit more paranoid about making mistakes. Fortunatelly
by Drdrdrq 9y ago
Yeah, I guess we all learned to write-protect the floppies the hard way... When you lose data you become a bit more paranoid about making mistakes. Fortunatelly floppies could be protected with a bit of tape.
- thefalcon 9y agoI never understood why you would ever write-protect a floppy. Then again, I had a Mac 512k with a single floppy drive. (Insert Disk A; CRANK WHIRR GRIND SPIT; Insert Disk B; WHIRR WHIRR CRANK GRIND SPIT; Insert Disk A...)
- StavrosK 9y agoOr rather, without a bit of tape. Tape was for writing, that's why many commercial disks shipped with the window permanently open.