Re: re Disabling internal disk

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From: Bob Hablutzel
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1988 15:10

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> Speaking of disabling internal disks. I have come across a few Mac SE's
> that I'd enjoy doing that to the internal floppy. Seems every time
> I have put one of my diskettes from my 2 Pluses into an SE, the SE says
> its not readable, and when put back into my Plus, it has been trashed
> and cannot even be formatted in the Plus. I think this is kind of LAME, Apple.
> So what's the story?

I don't know what the problem is, but it sure sounds like the SE floppy is 
bad (perhaps the head is magnetized, or something). Seems to me I would stop
putting floppies into this drive, and take it to an Apple dealer to get it
serviced. But perhaps I'm crazy.

Bob Hablutzel		BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU

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Subject: Re: re Disabling internal disk
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