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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: protecting hard drives
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Date: 13 Feb 89 22:05:07 GMT
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lee@TIS.COM (Theodore Lee) writes:
>(I agree with others who have commented on the absence of any
>write-enable switch on hard drives, although somehow I vaguely
>remember in some distant past reading about some kind of storage
>media where you could lock out writes to particular regions of
>the device; it may have been a mainframe disk or drum, however.)

The old Radio Shack hard drives had write-protect buttons on them.  I liked
that feature a lot...

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