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From: c60c-3ds@web-1b.berkeley.edu (John Kawakami)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 12 Mar 89 04:36:48 GMT
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The PET had the ability to stop the monitor's beam, so you could burn out
the phosphor real fast...

In a similar vein, the Atari ST has software control over the floppy disk
mechanism.  It is possible to push the head past the prescribed 80 tracks.
Some bright folks figured out early on that you can get a whole extra track
of data on each floppy.  Then some even brighter folks figured that you
could push the head out even more and squeeze in another track.
Of course, some floppy drives couldn't go out to track 82...
Here a crunch, there a crunch, and the drive refuses to read again.

So watch out folks.  Now can this happen on other machines?  I bet it can.

                  John Kawakami    c60c-3ds@web.berkeley.edu