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May not be a great idea: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15189#p204750 https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15189#p204... ```jus

by tom_ 7y ago

May not be a great idea: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15189#p204750 https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15189#p204... ```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.)

xxs 7y ago
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.