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Jeffrey Nelson / STILL AGIN' <jlne...@mole.uvm.edu> writes:

>Hmmmmm...sounds an awful lot like 5 1/4" fans trying to transfer wishful
>thinking to 3 1/2"  On the first computer my family bought(C-64), Dad got
>a hole punch and half-mooned out the left below-the-sticker-on-the-edge
>portion of the 5 1/4" disk with one punch and made it a two-sided disk,
>thereby cheating the manufacturers of their Babylon-induced wealth

>It ended up "looking like" this:

> ________________
>|  |	     |	|	
>)  |_________| [	
>|	      	|	
>|     { O }	|
>|       _	|
>|      | |	|
>|      | |	|
>|______(^)______|

Heh. You just reminded me of something I saw someone do in 7th grade
computer class (c.1984). We used Apple ][e computers and everyone did
the hole puncher double-sided disk trick. One of my classmates came
up to me saying he waas having trouble making his disk double sided.
He didn't have the disks lined up back to back quite perfectly when he
punched the notch so the disk was still write protected on side two.
This genius decided that obviously the notch wasn't deep enough so he
punched it a little deeper. And deeper... and deeper... When he came to
me, the disk looked like this (if I may plagurize your ASCII graphic):

          _________________
          |____           |
 Notch ->  ____)         [
          |               |
          |     { O }     |
          |       _       |
          |      | |      |
          |      | |      |
          |______(^)______|

I then rotated the disk by hand to show him the nice long notch he had
made in the disk surface.

Chris