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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: F-15 Strike Eagle
Message-ID: <1930@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 05:03:18 GMT
References: <3037@cup.portal.com> <3186@cup.portal.com> <9544@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> In article <3186@cup.portal.com> Don_C_Rudolph@cup.portal.com writes:
> >Sorry folks, but I put out some bad info over the net.  I described my
> >F-15 Strike Eagle diskette as having a hole in it.  Well, I just found
> >out that all floppies have that hole.
> 
> Wow, I never noticed this before either.  I took a look at my software
> collection, and *every* *single* *disk* has a hole in it.  It's always
> located near the middle of the disk, looking something like this:
> 
>           +--------------------------+
>           |                          |
>           |                         [
>           |                          |
>           |          _____           |
>           |         /     \          |
>           |        |       |         |
>           |         \_____/          |
>           |             ^            |
>           |             |            |
>           |             |            |
>           +-------------|------------+
>                         +---- hole is here
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this, or is there something wrong with all
> of my disks?  Could this have anything to do with these "virus" programs
> that I keep hearing about?

Great sarcasm, but the reference hole isn't the hub hole.  It's a hole in
the disk visible through a small cutout next to the hub hole.

Clayton E. Cramer