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Subject: Re: Trouble with high-density floppies?
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Date: 31 Oct 90 16:07:37 GMT
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From article <46168@apple.Apple.COM>, by marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson):
> Yes.  When I worked for Kennect, writing their Rapport software, we had a 
> big magnet that we used to "destroy" a disk--the Macs wouldn't format a 
> MSDOS disk (720K).

Bulk tape erasers work nicely, too.  (Got mine at Radio Shack expressly
for this purpose.)
--
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu

                 "Was all of this because I wore a big man's hat?"