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From: matt@srs.UUCP (Matt Goheen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced!
Summary: write protecting optical disks
Keywords: NeXT write protect
Message-ID: <997@srs.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 13:08:39 GMT
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Reply-To: srs!matt@cs.rochester.edu (Matt Goheen)
Organization: S.R. Systems, Rochester NY
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In article <3542@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	Of course, the bookkeeping involved might well be prohibitive.  You
>also have to worry about the possibility of the user somehow destroying or
>changing the bits on the disk.

I wonder if NeXT has built in any way to write protect individual disks?

"Evangelist Mode On"
I envision a little hole in the disk that you can cover (with tape or
chewing gum) to write protect the disk.
"Evangelist Mode Off"

Seems like a good idea to me.  First time I've ever agreed with an
evangelical type though...

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