A disk notcher is a device that was used to convert a single-sided 5¼" floppy disk to a double-sided floppy disk by adding a write-enable notch to the disk. The addition of the notch allowed data to be written to the other side.

If the floppy disk drive used a start of track index, an additional pair of notches had to be added to the floppy disk jacket. The image is an example of a disk notching tool.

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