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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: HEY- editor wars!
Message-ID: <7436@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 29 Jan 91 02:12:45 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.215740.21010@convex.com> <1991Jan26.231657.2806@portia.Stanford.EDU> <HINKER.91Jan28141312@cub_2.acl.lanl.gov>
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In article <HINKER.91Jan28141312@cub_2.acl.lanl.gov> hinker@acl.lanl.gov writes:
>  Ha! You guys are patty cakes.  _I_ use a magnetized pin to enter the the
>binary bits to the disk head as it spins.   [Insert :-) as necessary] 

	You use a DISK?!?  Talk about wimpiness!  I just have a BARE WIRE
attached to the floppy I/O port, and I send 1's and 0's DIRECTLY to memory
using a 9-volt BATTERY!

                                                        Dan

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