I remember getting AOL CDs in my box of apple jacks

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        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.

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          Correct. Any disks that the company didn’t want erased, like marketing disks, didn’t have the slide tab. Hence the op mentioning they used tape instead.