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From: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 5.25 floppy disk formats
Message-ID: <6513@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 90 22:13:25 GMT
References: <8520.infoapple.net@pro-generic> <15682@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Reply-To: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <15682@athertn.Atherton.COM> paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander) writes:
>Here are some references for further information:
>
>SA800/801 Diskette Storage Drive Theory of Operations
>1977, Shugart Associates
>
>-- 
>Paul Sander        (408) 734-9822  | If you must describe both quantity and
>paul@Atherton.COM                  | quality of someone else's code, try
>{decwrl,pyramid,sun}!athertn!paul  | "awful lot."

Shugart is my least favorite company in all of creation.  Someone gave me a 5
meg hard drive fore free, and I was wondering how to connect it to my 
Apple if I chose to.  I called the company and asked.  The technical service
person was the RUDEST I've ever dealt with in my life.  They didn't have the
manual for the drive I had, and the man continually got RUDER and RUDER!!

The best he could do was offer to SELL me the manual for an 8 inch floppy
drive that supposedly had similar power connections, he wanted $50 for it!

I took the 5 meg drive, talked to a friend of mine, and gave it to him.
Sometime this summer when he's teaching computer science to the 8 year
olds in his class he's going to bring it in and let the class disassemble it.

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Michael J Pender Jr  Box 1942 c/o W.P.I.        ... (Mankind) has already 
greyelf@wpi.bitnet   100 Institute Rd.          used its last chance.
greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu  Worcester, Ma 01609               - Gen. MacArthur