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Article #103005Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: tan... Warren Young
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 00:00
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hns...@sirius.com (Ron Hunsinger) wrote: >> _Some_ phones, mostly older ones, are "magnetic". They use the old > >I do have such a phone, I did make a disk full of known good data, I did >even go so far as to compute a checksum for the disk (32-bit CRC), and I >did leave that floppy under the phone for a couple of weeks, the phone did >ring (many times). > >The result? Nada. No affect on the floppy AT ALL. I guess you were just lucky. Or, the electromagnet in the phone is weaker than ones I'm familiar with. This really doesn't prove anything, you know. = Warren -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent
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From: tan...@cyberport.com (Warren Young) Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL? Date: 1996/09/01 Message-ID: <32290bc2.79115321@news.cyberport.com> X-Deja-AN: 177838452 references: <4vf2rs$f6s@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> <4vsa8v$ctp@news.usit.net> <4vsg0a$pr4@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <4vvdb4$6a@lex.zippo.com> <502af2$gse@darkwing.uoregon.edu> <32257e20.455292536@news.cyberport.com> <hnsngr-3008961105250001@news.sirius.com> organization: none newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit