Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!ucsd!ames!killer!jolnet!rich From: rich@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Rich Andrews) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: computer follies Message-ID: <813@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> Date: 18 Sep 88 00:50:23 GMT References: <5856@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <27800001@weathertop> <1205@scolex> <7072@well.UUCP> <501@remsit.UUCP> Reply-To: rich@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Rich Andrews) Organization: Jolnet, public access Unix, Orland Park (Joliet) IL Lines: 62 In article <501@remsit.UUCP> rem@remsit.UUCP (Roger Murray) writes: >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 > >He also mentioned something about his sister spilling chocolate syrup all over >everything once...:-) >-- >Roger Murray You guys are really something else...If you think that those disk][ drives are really great you should take a look at the incredible drive that I have on my 3b2. Not only can I format french toast, but I can do croissants, bagels, doughnuts, and even pizza. The good part is that I can also format paper plates, used pizza cardboard, standard notebook paper and even toilet paper! The chocolate syrup is of no real detriment to the integrity of the data stored on a floppy. I seems to make to data "hard" as it takes about 4 tries at re-formatting to make the disk "clean" again. I haven't bought a floppy disk in months. If I really want premium disks, I cut a picture of a floppy out of a magazine and use that. Now that is the ultimate. When i need a dc-600 for the tape drive, that is another story. I use rubber bands and Malt-O-Meal boxes for that. I have been able to get 3.3 gigabytes on one of those! There is a small problem with band breakage at high densities like that, so I usually limit it to about 600 meg per cartridge. Some day I will dive into hy hard drives to see what I can get out of them. BTW the write only memory chip in my Alus 2012 computer is bad. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement? Thanks in advance, rich andrews -- Any opinions expressed are my own. Now, for a limited time, they can be yours too, for the incredible price of only $19.95. Simply send $19.95 (in Alterian dollars) to ...killer!jolnet!rich or rich@jolnet.orpk.il.us.