[Coco] Diskette Flipping Question

[Brendan Donahe]

Yes, you need another index hole for the single sided Color Computer drives
(at least the ones I've used).  This requires lifting the floppy plastic
away from the magnetic disk on either side and using a hole punch to put
another hole in the plastic (on both sides of the floppy, of course).  I
use a standard single hole punch but with a "collector" such that the
punched plastic stays in the punch and doesn't get lost between the plastic
and magnetic disk.

As was already suggested, a template to mark where these holes need to go
helps considerably.

Brendan

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just got a 36-3029 drive unit using it with a FD-500 interface in my
> Coco3. It works nice, but I noticed that I cannot flip the disk to use
> the other side, since this drive is single sided. What is the problem
> ? Do I need to make another alignment hole on it ?
>
> The apple //c and C-64 don't have this problem I can flip and use both
> sides with no problem.
>
> Thanks,
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