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From: fzw@ti-csl
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Subject: Re: Write Protect Labels for Floppy Dis
Message-ID: <8800006@ti-csl>
Date: Tue, 1-Apr-86 10:23:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  1 10:23:00 1986
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/* ... the discussion on what to do with the excess "write-protect" tabs
that come in boxes of floppies... */

They also make great reinforcements for 3-hole punched papers that
get a lot of use... just stick them down in the places where the holes
are going to be punched, then punch.  Use one on each side of the paper
for extra-heavy duty.

BTW, only on 5-1/4" diskettes are they "write-protect" tabs... on 8"
diskettes they are "write-enable" tabs.   (Almost all other computer
magnetic media I know of follows the ANS practice of 'the void means you
can't write on it'.  Think of write-enable rings on mag tape, and the
holes in cassette tapes that must be covered to record, and the 3-1/2"
diskettes that have the sliding tab.)

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