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From: vladimir@prosper (Vladimir G. Ivanovic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: FDHD DRIVE DESTROYS SELF, LOCKED HD FLOPPY
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Date: 18 Jul 90 17:40:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: clark@randvax.UUCP (John Clark)

I was under the impression that floppy drives suffered "head crashes" all the
time, literally.  The heads touch the recording surface making the floppy
travel a sinous path like:

			xxxxx
		xxxxxx /-----\ xxxxx
      ----------------/ xxxxx \-------------
	        xxxxxxx	      xxxxxx

where the x's represent the heads and the -'s represent the floppy.

-- Vladimir