https://peertube.v1.root42.de/videos/watch/af6ddf74-bca4-42ec-970d-de31fbc79187 Floppy Disk Punch Back in the 1980s floppy disks were expensive. And many early floppy disk drives were only single sided, which means they only had one read/write head and would only use one disk side. Both Commodore and Apple-II users quickly figured out that you could flip the disk around, if you punched a hole into the other side of the disk. This is a quick explanation on why this helped to double your disk capacity and some other differences between Commodore and IBM disk drives. Join me on Mastodon: https://chaos.social/@root42 Music: A Little Wonder by Spino2006 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:24:55 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.v1.root42.de https://peertube.v1.root42.de/lazy-static/avatars/0a35d55b-bc46-4c59-b95d-8410012a3183.jpg https://peertube.v1.root42.de/videos/watch/af6ddf74-bca4-42ec-970d-de31fbc79187 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.v1.root42.de/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.