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From: dfe@petrus.UUCP (Dean F. Espinoza)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Disk ][ write-protect mechanism problems (Oh, woe is me !!)
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 19:45:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 19:45:55 1985
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> 
>      Our Campus owns 25 Apple ][/+ and ][/e computers, and for reasons we won't
>  go into now, the small arm which actually detects the write-pritect tabs exist
> ance has broken off (worn out ... whatever) on about 1/3 of our drives.  
>      
>      
>      
>                                            GLENN S. PIPER
>                                            O05 @ PSUVM
>                                            (BERKS OPERATOR)
>      


 Your users probably realized that breaking off the write-protect mechanism
allows them to write on both sides of a floppy disk without punching a hole
in the disk's other side (this has nothing to do with the original question,
 but it is most likely that the write-protect did not wear out.)

                                   Dean Espinoza
        				
				...bellcore!dfe