Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!bunker!stpstn!aad
From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Keywords: mag tape problems
Message-ID: <2047@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 03:07:52 GMT
References: <5856@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <614@sbsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT
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At CMU we had these sorts of things constantly.  Users would jam a macintosh
3.5" disk into a PC, and would fold a PC 5.25" disk in half and stick it into
a macintosh.  Someone asked a fiend of mine how to "open this newfangled
disk drive".  It was the hard drive of an XT.  Someone at Columbia was
downloading 36 bit Twenex executables to his trash-80, and couldn't understand
why they didn't work.

By the way, what was wrong with cutting off the first few feet of a tape?
Unless it was more than just a few feet, the person shouldn't have come close
to the BOT marker, nicht wahr?


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