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Remember punching single-sided 5 1/4" disks to make them double-sided?


Did that all the time for the Apple //e disks. Since most of the media at the time was for 360K disks for IBM compatibles but since the Apple format was 143K the vast majority of the time it worked.

In fact if I dug around in the box under my desk I could probably find the special puncher, and a couple unused ribbons for the old daisy wheel printer, etc.


I didn't have a punch. Scissors worked just as well.


Yeah, and they worked really well.




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