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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Re: Disk ][ write-protect mechanism problems (Oh, woe is me !!)
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 11:23:34 EDT
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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
> 
> 
>  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

Couldn't you also just install a switch to enable/disable the write control
line? This would fix your problem without getting a new plastic gizmo.
--Chuck

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