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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 400K disks, Are they worth anything?
Message-ID: <7928@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 11 May 89 23:59:48 GMT
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Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
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In article <8690@boulder.Colorado.EDU> adamb@tigger.colorado.edu (Adam 'Velvis' Beguelin) writes:
>
>I have around 60 400K mac disks that are now useless to me 
>since I no longer have a mac.  Is there anything worthwhile
>I can do with these disks?  

There are several things you could do with your 400K disks.

Other than the obvious, which I won't mention on a family network,
you can:

* use them as drink coasters

* remove the round, floppy part from the casing to use as frisbees

* use four stacks of 15 to raise your new computer's monitor to
  proper viewing level 

* place one in the mailbox of each grad student in your department
  to see what they do with them

* give them to an IBM PS/2 user to confuse him/her

* wallpaper seven and a half square feet of wall with them

* glue them together and put them on a Mac user's desk to freak
  out him/her

* glue each one individually onto a separate Mac user's desk to
  freak out him/her

* test your Corning cookware's melting point with them inside
  (use resulting slag to fill cracks in your porcelain)

* mail them to me as a joke

* see if they will work in your compact disc player

* mail them to John Sculley as a joke

* toast them

* mail them to IBM's CEO as a joke

* use them as skeet-shooting targets

* mail them to Mikhail Gorbachev as a joke

* punch holes in them and initialize them all as high-density 1.4Mb
  diskettes, then give them to an FDHD disk drive user to watch his/her
  face when they all fail in two weeks

* give them a decent burial

* mail them to Tip Sheet, c/o MacUser Magazine, 950 Tower Lane, 
  18th floor, Foster City, CA 94404 (if they find a tip in any of
  them and publish it, you'll get $25)

* give them a decent burial at sea

* refuse to let a security inspector on an El Al flight look at them

* save a copy of this e-mail message on each of them

* throw them all away

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