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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
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Subject: Re: The "other side" of a floppy, NEW INFO!
Message-ID: <485@eosp1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Jan-84 12:02:23 EST
Article-I.D.: eosp1.485
Posted: Tue Jan  3 12:02:23 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Jan-84 03:36:53 EST
Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ
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References:

The "Norton utilities" for the IBM PC are distributed on a
double single-sided floppy diskette.  That is, the floppy has
notches in both sides to enable writing, and it has two timing
holes.  The floppy can be inserted in a drive either side up, and
it looks like a (different) one-sided floppy on each side.

Norton did this so that all of his software (over 160k) can be placed
on one floppy which any drive (even a one-sided drive) can read.

				- Keremath,  care of:
				  Robison
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