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From: SAB121@PSUVM.BITNET
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Subject: The Incredible 3.5" Disk...
Message-ID: <89342.122150SAB121@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 8 Dec 89 17:21:50 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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When I bought a GS, I got a 3.5" disk drive as part of the bargain. I never
used it, except when I was running a GS program (too expensive to buy disks...
No? Take a look at some of the name brands (the only things I knew about)...
10 disks for $30.00...). Well, eventually I learned that using them for data
was as big a change as using ProDOS over DOS.

Well, I thought last night was going to be a horror show night. Downloaded 1
meg of stuff onto /ram5 from the mainframe here at school, then went to show
Bards Tale GS to a friend who was impressed with his //c+ version of Bards
Tale III. (I'll never understand why people buy a //e or //c when there is
a GS out there with their name on it...)  Anyway, without thinking, I reset the
ram disk to 0K.  OOOOPPPSSS! Well, what a wonderful way to start off the
evening. Could it get worse?  You bet! Next thing I know, my friends BTIII is
STUCK in the 3.5" drive... Minor surgery and a pair of needle nose pliers later
(I couldn't do it. I let my friend do it and hid my face so I wouldn't have to
watch the site of such primitive tools working on MY baby...), I had a working
3.5" drive.  Unfortunately it sounded like something was rubbing as the drive
spun.  Oh well, if you can't figure it out, give it a shake! Purrrrr..... came
out of that drive like nothing had ever happened.

Well, what does this have to do with those incredible little 3.5" beauties?
As I left my friends house (he had no car, I had to drive him home...), I
slipped and fell, causing 10 or so disks I was carrying in my pocket to fall
into a snowbank.  Yelping, I pulled them out and brushed them off as best I
could, then went home.  Today, I popped the little suckers into the Macs here
at school.  Just fine, no loss of data, no problemo... even when I know that
water at least must have gotten into them... Also, these where the GENERIC type
($.49 apeice)!  Definitely worth the money for that little extra peice of mind.

NOTE: Don't try this at home... These are trained stunt disks who have worked
years to do this without mishap...