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r...@fc.hp.com (Ray Depew) writes:

>Warren Young (tan...@cyberport.com) wrote:

>: So, a question: what is it that will cause a disk to go bad in the
>: five minutes it takes me to drive to work?  It sure as heck isn't
>: magnetism.  :-/  I can't count the number of times I've gone home to
>: grab something, put it on a floppy, drove to work, and couldn't read
>: the disk.

>I'm not sure where I live, but I'll ask anyway:  do you by any chance
>cross the equator on your drive to work?

Oh!! That explains why I have so much trouble with Microsoft programs,
Those installation disks must have been written to in the Northern
Hemisphere, and since I am using them in Australia, the reversal of
the Earth's magnetic field must be scrambling the bits!

hmmm, now all we need is a local field reversing generator, and ALL
codes will be bug free! :)

Now, if only I could figure out why ftp'ed programs give the same trouble.
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