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TIL that there are double sided 5.25” disk drives. My only experience with them was the Apple IIc, which still remained single sided.
by Bluecobra 4y ago
TIL that there are double sided 5.25” disk drives. My only experience with them was the Apple IIc, which still remained single sided.
- pohl 4y agoWhen I was young and had a TRS-80 Model I, we used to manually flip the disk over (after cutting a write-protect notch out on the other side) to write on both sides. I remember wishing I had a Model 4 so that I didn't have to do that. I'm not sure if that's a false memory.
- themadturk 4y agoWe definitely did that with the Commodore 64. Not sure if any 1541 or later disk drives did double-sided disks, but the "flippy" disk was a great trick.