Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!shawnm
From: shawnm@sco.COM (Shawn McMurdo)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <1205@scolex>
Date: 8 Sep 88 19:08:17 GMT
References: <5856@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <27800001@weathertop>
Reply-To: shawnm@sco.COM (Shawn McMurdo)
Organization: SCO Engineering
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In article <27800001@weathertop> daven@weathertop.prime.com writes:
>
>YAFS (Yet another floppy story)
>
>>[Storys of floppys being mutilated]
>

in 1981 (ok so i was in high school), a couple of friends and i
attempted to see how much we could mutilate a disk and still get
our cbm pet computer to read it.  we proceeded to crumple, mangle,
fling about, and variously damage the disk.  we then ripped it out
of its cover, threw it on the floor, and stomped on it with dirt
encrusted tennis shoes, creating some rather nice shoe prints on
what was left of the floppy.  we took the top off the disk drive,
dropped in the floppy, and with a little bit of alignment by hand,
wallah, no data lost!  takes a licking and keeps on spinning!

shawn

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