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Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?

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From: hns... Ron Hunsinger
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 00:00
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In article <32290ce2...@news.cyberport.com>, tan...@cyberport.com
(Warren Young) 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.

The obvious candidates are:

   a) misaligned heads, and

   b) dirt.

-Ron Hunsinger
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From: hns...@sirius.com (Ron Hunsinger)
Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
Date: 1996/09/03
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