Re: Pizza Hut erases diskettes

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From: Steve Sheldon
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:15

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In <1992Dec30.000429.24047@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:

>I'd often wondered about the magnetic safety of mailing diskettes.
>Wondered how many diskettes that arrived unreadable were really
>due to exposure to magnetic fields during transit.

>Today in my mailbox was a post card from Pizza Hut. Taped to it was
>a magnetic sticker, suitable for posting on your refrigerator door,
>with the phone number of my local store.

>Good thing no software publisher was mass-mailing update diskettes
>this week, eh?

>:-)

 I recall Speaker Builder magazine published a story once about somebody who
ordered a new pair of woofer's and a Lotus 123 upgrade on the same day both
to be shipped Fedex.

 The Fedex driver was very nice and packed the Lotus upgrade between the two
woofer boxes so it'd be protected from the rain that day.

 :-)

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sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
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