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From: hummel@csd2.UUCP (Robert Hummel)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Repeat mailing of Warning to DEC Rainbow Users
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 20:36:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 20:36:00 1985
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/* csd2:net.micro / wouk@unc.UUCP (Arthur Wouk) /  8:46 am  Feb 11, 1985 */

> The word from the DEC phone backup support people  is the follow-
> ing: Rainbow drives are intended to be used with floppies WITHOUT
> reinforcement rings about the central hole. The presence of these
> rings  damages  the drives, while the drives damage the rings, to
> the extent that eventually BOTH are unusable. You  must  use  un-
> reinforced  floppies.   There  is no statement of this in any DEC
> literature, but the software which is DEC-suppled  is  always  on
> unreinforced discs.

This sounds very fishy to me. I've been using ordinary 3M SS/DD
diskettes with hub rings on two Rainbows for 15 months. The only
trouble I ever had with floppy drives occurred before I started using
the 3M disks. I suspect that someone has been feeding Mr. Wouk a line
of bull.

Tony Movshon (using a friend's account)
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