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In article <1989Dec8.1...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> shou...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson) writes:
>In article <Dec.7.23.49....@topaz.rutgers.edu> msm...@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes:
>>[half-height drives with full-height instructions.]
>>
>>The user inserted the disk into the slot BETWEEN the two half-height
>>drives.
>>We had to open the machine cover to get it out.
>Being short of space, I stood it on its end under the desk.  Now, I have
>two half-height floppy drives, of different makes.  Owing to some moron of
>a designer's design, there's a gaping slot between the bottom drive and the

On IBM PC/ATs (and clones) the disk drives are on plastic rails.  Most of
these rails come with multiple sets of mounting holes for different height
drives, etc.  The "wrong" holes will still support the drive but position
in ~1/4" too high/low in the bay.  This creates the "third slot".

Does anyone remember hard sectored diskettes?  My first PC was a Heathkit 
H89.  It used single sided 160KB diskettes that were hard sectored.  I
usually made flippies out of them. Anyway, there was a guy in the Houston
HUG who used to play tricks with the diskettes by blocking one of the
sectoring holes.  Said it was a cheap form of copy protection for his
programs.