Use of HD and DD drives, diskettes (2011)

My first computer was an Apple IIe, which of course used 5.25” diskettes. Later, I had a 386 with 3.5” drives. I loved those 3.5” disks, they made a satisfying clunk when you pushed them into a drive. I felt like I was living in the future.

And of course I was. My teenage self had no idea that in a couple of decades computers would be everywhere and in everything.

> You can "fake" a 1.2MB diskette to "look" like a 720K diskette

Interesting, it's literally the inverse of what some of us oldtimers here would do on our Commodore 64: we'd punch a hole in a 5"1/4 floppy to make it work as a double-sided floppy (for the drive readers that'd only read one side).