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Article #103022Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: n... Dr N.C. Eastmond
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 00:00
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: >I couldn't find any fridge magnets, and I'm not sure if a phone handset is : >more or less magnetic, but I left the handset from my fancy at&t darth : >vader phone on a full disk for 5 minutes, and all the wav files I stuck on : >it still played ok.. I expected it to break it, whaddya know.. : Not only that, but the sound quality was noticeably warmer. I slapped a 3 1/2 inch Mac formatted floppy on a laboratory magnetic stirrer set to full throttle. After 1 hour of whizzing a magnetic flea around on the disk, the machine read it just fine. I am beginning to wonder how big a field you need to cpletely raz a floppy. Dr.E. - The Cartoon: <http://www.liv.ac.uk/~nce/home.htm> Personal Website : <http://www.liv.ac.uk/~nce/personal/index.htm> Dr. Nigel C. Eastmond | Email n...@liv.ac.uk Dept. Pharmacology and Therapeutics | Tel. +44 (0)151 794 5541 University of Liverpool | Fax. +44 (0)151 794 5540 Liverpool L69 3BX | Mobile 0468 453892
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