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From: christer@zeus.cs.umu.se (Christer Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //c Hard drives (or: Save a SYSOP from going insane)
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Date: 10 Apr 89 08:10:34 GMT
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In article <10059@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Cliff Tuel) writes:
>So, it CAN be done but it isn't easy.  And while we're on the subject of
>hard disks, this was on the next page of the same Open-Apple:
>
>	"I know you can notch a floppy disk and flip it over to get
>	an extra 143K.  Can I notch my Sider hard drive, flip it over,
>	and get another 10 megabytes of storage?
>
>						Doug Smith
>						Long Beach, NC 
>


It doesn't surprise me that the technical editor (whatever his name may be) of
InCider thinks that an Apple disk has 143K, but that Open-Apple should fall
into the same trap is frightening...

What is happening to the Apple world? Didn't we use to have the most
knowledgeable users?

/Christer


Christer Ericson / Inst. for Information Processing / University of Umeaa /
S-90187 UMEAA / Sweden / Internet: christer@cs.umu.se