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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Summary: My turn.
Message-ID: <7072@well.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 88 09:14:25 GMT
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "One time, I got a parking ticket; I pleaded insanity."  -- Steve Wright

In article <1205@scolex> shawnm@sco.COM (Shawn McMurdo) writes:
>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.  [ ... ]

	This is probably an Urban Legend, especially considering the
original source, but here goes.

	A friend of mine also decided to test the limits of floppy abuse,
except they were reading it on an Apple ][.

	They spilled coffee on it.  They put a crease in it, and removed it.
They walked on it.  On their way to L.A., they passed it through the X-Ray
machine six times or so.  They sat on it.  Ultimately, they took it to a
waiting Disk ][ drive, and it booted.

	Me?  My 5-1/4" floppies went bad if I just looked at them cross-eyed.

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