At 3:40 PM -0400 6/10/98, Simon Raahauge DeSantis wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>> If you have any old boxes of 5.25" disks, their write protect tabs work
>> nicely for this purpose, since they were designed to wrap around the edge
>> of a disk and stick w/o flaking off in the drive.  FWIW, they're also
>> great for re-recording video and audio tapes....  Now, if some company
>> would just start making those again and repackaging them....
>
>I do have a few old shoe-boxes of 5.25" disks (Various parts and pieces of
>different versions of AIX 2.x.x), but I don't know what the write proctect
>tab would look like...
>

If you look at the disk on a flat surface, with the exposed part toward
you, either one of the two sides has a little cutout on it, about half a
centimeter square.  with these old disks, you were supposed to take a piece
of tape (provided in the box) and wrap it around the disk to make the
cutout disappear, making it writeable (or write protected? i assume it's
the same as normal 3.5" disks).

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