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From: ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Disk power
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 19:42:03 EST
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The advice is meant to protect diskettes from being accidentally written to
during transients that occur during power on/off. However, the 1050
also does not have a head loading scheme (basically, the Tandon 55B drives
used in it do not have head loading), which means that the head is always
in contact with the disk when the disk is in & the doorknob is down; I 
personally wouldn't want to run the risk of some transient destroying
the *head*; though the drive is designed to prevent such weird things from
occurring, they do occur (the head is delicate, so is its suspension, and 
the whole thing may get jerked off).  I'm no one to offer advice here, but I
suggest you tell the kids the right way to do things, the little guys are 
often more careful than adults I've known .. 

Re. the formatted diskette from atari, I don't think that has been shipped
since the early days of the 810's .. it doesn't really make all that much
of a difference' just let it go..