-=> Tony Langdon wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> Never had any truck with AOL. Nor Compu$serve. I did, however re-use
 DD> some disks from K-Mart's abortive Blue Light network. They didn't count
 DD> on people possessing a notcher to make their "read only"
5.25" floppies
 DD> useful.

 TL> Having a notcher, that's fancy.  I used to use a pair of scissors to
 TL> cut write access notches back in the Apple ][ days, to use the second
 TL> side of floppies (as a "flippy"). :)

Nearly all of my 5.25" disks were flippys. I first used a train
conductors ticket punch to nibble the notch at the proper location. Then
one of the specialist suppliers of floppy disks offered the notcher at a
good price (free with minimum purchase IIRC) and the rest, as they say, is
now overwritten.

... "Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch." -- Jim Harrison

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