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In article <507osc$q...@Mercury.mcs.com>, fu...@MCS.COM (Chris Matthaei) writes:

>Jeffrey Nelson / STILL AGIN' <jlne...@mole.uvm.edu> writes:
>
>>Hmmmmm...sounds an awful lot like 5 1/4" fans trying to transfer wishful
>>thinking to 3 1/2"  On the first computer my family bought(C-64), Dad got
>>a hole punch and half-mooned out the left below-the-sticker-on-the-edge
>>portion of the 5 1/4" disk with one punch and made it a two-sided disk,
>>thereby cheating the manufacturers of their Babylon-induced wealth
>
>>It ended up "looking like" this:
>
>> ________________
>>|  |	     |	|
>>)  |_________| [
>>|	      	|
>>|     { O }	|
>>|       _	|
>>|      | |	|
>>|      | |	|
>>|______(^)______|
>
>Heh. You just reminded me of something I saw someone do in 7th grade
>computer class (c.1984). We used Apple ][e computers and everyone did
>the hole puncher double-sided disk trick. One of my classmates came
>up to me saying he waas having trouble making his disk double sided.
>He didn't have the disks lined up back to back quite perfectly when he
>punched the notch so the disk was still write protected on side two.
>This genius decided that obviously the notch wasn't deep enough so he
>punched it a little deeper. And deeper... and deeper... When he came to
>me, the disk looked like this (if I may plagurize your ASCII graphic):
>
>          _________________
>          |____           |
> Notch ->  ____)         [
>          |               |
>          |     { O }     |
>          |       _       |
>          |      | |      |
>          |      | |      |
>          |______(^)______|
>
>I then rotated the disk by hand to show him the nice long notch he had
>made in the disk surface.

Not computer related, but this reminds me of a story told by a wood shop 
teacher in high school.  It seems that a kid was having trouble with his 
project and sought advice, exclaiming, "I've cut this board three times 
and it's still too short!"  I guess some are just not technically inclined.  

Troy Smith