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Article #1811Re: The NeXT machine has been announced!
From: Matt Goheen
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1988 13:08
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1988 13:08
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In article <3542@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> Of course, the bookkeeping involved might well be prohibitive. You
>also have to worry about the possibility of the user somehow destroying or
>changing the bits on the disk.
I wonder if NeXT has built in any way to write protect individual disks?
"Evangelist Mode On"
I envision a little hole in the disk that you can cover (with tape or
chewing gum) to write protect the disk.
"Evangelist Mode Off"
Seems like a good idea to me. First time I've ever agreed with an
evangelical type though...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!rochester!srs!matt From: matt@srs.UUCP (Matt Goheen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! Summary: write protecting optical disks Keywords: NeXT write protect Message-ID: <997@srs.UUCP> Date: 17 Oct 88 13:08:39 GMT References: <360@elan.UUCP> <2070@cloud9.UUCP> <528@fabscal.UUCP> <1152@mmm.UUCP> <5826@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3542@phri.UUCP> Reply-To: srs!matt@cs.rochester.edu (Matt Goheen) Organization: S.R. Systems, Rochester NY Lines: 19