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From: rem@remsit.UUCP (Roger Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <501@remsit.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 11:16:33 GMT
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In article <7072@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	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.

Those Disk ][ drives are great.  Perhaps this is an Urban Legend as well,
but I knew a guy who claimed to have formatted a piece of french toast with
one.  To this day, I'm still trying to figure out how he managed to get
something as thick as a piece of french toast into something as thin as a
Disk ][.  Aside from that aspect, I have no reason not to believe the guy.

He also mentioned something about his sister spilling chocolate syrup all over
everything once...:-)
-- 
Roger Murray
"Look ma!  No ihnp4!"  :-)
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