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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: What is Apple 800K Eject init?
Summary: Another Apple Hardware Gaff
Keywords: laserwriter sc, imagewriter lq, fax modem, twiggy, lisa, apple III
Message-ID: <445@newave.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 90 03:43:46 GMT
References: <58359.2685A83D@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
Lines: 29

In article <58359.2685A83D@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
> > In article <1714@ac.dal.ca> ireland@ac.dal.ca writes:
> > > A local bulletin board here has an init called Apple 800K Eject.

> > Supposedly there's a problem with some Apple 800k drives that if the
> > heads are out on the outside of the disk when it's ejected, it gets
> > caught on the shutter and mangles the drive, the disk or both.

> It looks for all the world like a subtle admission from Apple that they
> goofed slightly with their 800K drives.

One person's goof is another person's highway robbery.  I lost three
drives to broken upper head brackets for this reason.  Each one costed
me $175 or so to fix.  Apple should come clean on this problem and
refund everyone that they robbed.

Actually, 5 years is a bit soon to expect action from Apple--last I
heard they were still trying to settle a class-action lawsuit centering
around the famous "twiggy" drive.

What's next from Apple?  How about a flyback transformer init?

-john-

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