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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacScheme Warning!
Message-ID: <835@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 12:43:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: cadre.835
Posted: Mon Oct  5 12:43:00 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Oct-87 05:25:14 EDT
References: <828@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <3907@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gordon E. Banks)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <3907@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) writes:
>Many companies put those little stickers on the gates of the floppies.
>You must have had to work awfully hard to jam the disk into the machine.
>I would have thought you would suspect something when a gentle push
>didn't get the disk into the drive. I have made it a habit to do a quick
>check of all the diskettes I get just to be sure they're ok before I stick
>them in the machine. You should not blame the company because you didn't
>look especially when the standard practice is to sticker the gate closed.
>
Perhaps it is the standard practice in Canada, but not here.  And
if it is standard, there should be a warning anyway for those
who are buying their first program  (Apple doesn't do it).
I have quite a few programs, but this is the first one I have seen
like this.  What is more, Semantic Microsystems never did this on
previous releases.  After the drive was removed, the problem was apparent:
the lever arm that opens the slide is a piece of flimsy sheet metal
and is easily bent; fortunately, not to hard to fix.  It doesn't
take much force to bend the lever, and thus the drive design is
also at fault.  The folks at Semantic Microsystems were very nice,
and I do not want to denigrate their company, which I like.
They are discontinuing the practice of putting stickers on the slide, 
since this has happened to others too.  They offered to pay for fixing 
the drive, but since we have an in-house technician, it was not necessary.