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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink13•9 months agoI remember AOL on 3.5 floppies. You could put tape over a specific hole and re-use the disk.
minus-squareteftlinkfedilink10•edit-29 months agoYou could do that with any copy protected floppy. That was the little sliding tab in the corner. Tab open = read-only. Tab closed = read & write.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•9 months agoI remember the AOL disks not having the sliding tab, either it had been pried out or it was just a disk that didn’t have it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•9 months agoAOL didn’t want you to reuse them so they didn’t have the tab
minus-squareteftlinkfedilink2•9 months agoCorrect. Any disks that the company didn’t want erased, like marketing disks, didn’t have the slide tab. Hence the op mentioning they used tape instead.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•9 months agoSame principle as with cassettes/music tapes.
I remember AOL on 3.5 floppies. You could put tape over a specific hole and re-use the disk.
You could do that with any copy protected floppy. That was the little sliding tab in the corner. Tab open = read-only. Tab closed = read & write.
I remember the AOL disks not having the sliding tab, either it had been pried out or it was just a disk that didn’t have it.
AOL didn’t want you to reuse them so they didn’t have the tab
Correct. Any disks that the company didn’t want erased, like marketing disks, didn’t have the slide tab. Hence the op mentioning they used tape instead.
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Same principle as with cassettes/music tapes.