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From: jtc@latcs1.oz.au (John Catsoulis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Erasing Floppies (was Re: Trouble with high-density floppies?)
Keywords: 101 uses for a dead PDP11...
Message-ID: <9135@latcs1.oz.au>
Date: 2 Nov 90 01:27:26 GMT
References: <46168@apple.Apple.COM> <3365@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: jtc@latcs1.oz.au (John Catsoulis)
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Organization: Elec Eng, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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In article <3365@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu writes:
>
>Bulk tape erasers work nicely, too.  (Got mine at Radio Shack expressly
>for this purpose.)

Know what I use? The hard disk (platter that is) from an old PDP11. It's got
a huge magnet on the bottom, so all you need to do is merely suggest to the
floppy that it go near the platter and it's clean! Great stuff. It also makes
a great frisbee... You fling it across the lab and watch it attach itself to
anything metallic. Klunk!! :-)

John.
jtc@ee.latrobe.edu.au

P.S. My friend uses the rest of the PDP as a hi-fi rack!