You could staple them anywhere in a significant portion of the corners outside the circle inhabited by the disc and be fine, but I think you’d want to to remove the staple before getting it stuck in a drive.
I don’t miss that loading sound though, or the dreaded clicking when it was hunting for corrupted data.
She’s in a rest home telling stories about the time she scared her co-worker by making a duplicate of an important disk and stapling it to a binder.
You could staple them anywhere in a significant portion of the corners outside the circle inhabited by the disc and be fine, but I think you’d want to to remove the staple before getting it stuck in a drive.
I don’t miss that loading sound though, or the dreaded clicking when it was hunting for corrupted data.