303Chapter 7. DISK MODE

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About floppy disks

Preventing accidental erasure
Floppy disks have a write-protect slide which can be used
to prevent accidental erasure of data. On floppy disks which
contain important data, move the write-protect slide to the
write-protect position (the window open) so that data can-
not be written to the disk.
Data backup
The data on a floppy disk can be damaged by unforeseen
accidents. If you have especially important data that you
wish to keep, we suggest that you take the time to make a
backup copy.
write-protect slide
write permit
write prohibit