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Article #103044Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: cs... Eric S. Smith Left-Field M...
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:00
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In article <502af2$g...@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Kevin Leslie Schaper <ksch...@darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote: [margins repaired] >I couldn't find any fridge magnets, and I'm not sure if a phone handset is >more or less magnetic, but I left the handset from my fancy at&t darth >vader phone on a full disk for 5 minutes, and all the wav files I stuck on >it still played ok.. I expected it to break it, whaddya know.. Yeah, I once took a disk that couldn't hold anything for very long anyway (cheap crap) and stuffed some files on it and then attacked it with all manner of magnets. I even rubbed it, with the door open, on the tv screen. Couldn't get it to lose. Funny, eh, how they just sort of die when they're sitting there, but not when you're TRYING to kill them. --Eric Smith
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From: cs...@blaze.trentu.ca (Eric S. Smith: Left-Field Marshal) Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL? Date: 1996/08/29 Message-ID: <Dwwr04.D2n@blaze.trentu.ca> X-Deja-AN: 177378302 references: <4vf2rs$f6s@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> <4vsg0a$pr4@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <4vvdb4$6a@lex.zippo.com> <502af2$gse@darkwing.uoregon.edu> organization: Trent University, Canada newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit