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From: d... Don Stokes
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 1990 02:19

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zou...@me.utoronto.ca ("Athanasios(Tom) Zougas") writes:

[magnetic catches vs magnetic media/credit cards etc]

One thing that amazes me -- the DEC RL01 disk drive uses a filthy great
magnet to anchor the disk cartridge to the spindle -- the magnet would
be, at a guess, half an inch away from your data....  it's obviously not
close enough to cause problems, but it does seem odd to have a strong
permanent magnet so near to magnetic media.

Don Stokes, ZL2TNM  /  /                            Home: d...@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz
Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office  Work:        d...@gp.govt.nz
__________________/  /__Wellington, New Zealand_____or:_PSI%(5301)47000028::DON

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From: d...@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes)
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Subject: Re: Stupid Users
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Date: 1 Sep 90 02:19:25 GMT
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