Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoI was around during the stone age of the internetslrpnk.netimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareteft@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoYou could do that with any copy protected floppy. That was the little sliding tab in the corner. Tab open = read-only. Tab closed = read & write.
minus-squareCADmonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI remember the AOL disks not having the sliding tab, either it had been pried out or it was just a disk that didn’t have it.
minus-squareBene7rddso@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoAOL didn’t want you to reuse them so they didn’t have the tab
You could do that with any copy protected floppy. That was the little sliding tab in the corner. Tab open = read-only. Tab closed = read & write.
I remember the AOL disks not having the sliding tab, either it had been pried out or it was just a disk that didn’t have it.
AOL didn’t want you to reuse them so they didn’t have the tab