5.25 Double Sided FLIPPY disk--Extremely Rare Retro Media For Sale
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5.25 Double Sided FLIPPY disk--Extremely Rare Retro Media
Price: US $19.95
10 Double sided 5.25 flippy disks. Not regular floppy disks, but the very rare "flippy". Floppy diskette sleeves included. As described in Wikipieda... A flippy disk (sometimes known as a "flippy") is adouble-sided5+1⁄4-inch floppy disk, specially modified so that the two sides can be used independently (but not simultaneously) in single-sided drives. Many commercial publishers of computer software (mainly, relatively small programs like arcade games that could fit on a single-sided floppy disk) distributed their products on flippy disks formatted for two different brands of computer, e.g.TRS-80on one side and Apple on the other.Compute!published an article on the topic in March 1981. Sieg, M. G. (March 1981)."Flipping Your Disk".Compute!. p.71. Retrieved2013-10-26.
