[Coco] Diskette Flipping Question

[Paulo Lindoso]

If memory serves, you DO need to punch the alignment hole.  The side notch
is not enough.

I remember I even had a carton template and a portable hole puncher (those
used to tick train tickets in Europe!) to help me out.

Cheers,

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:36 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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