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Re: Mac Portable

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From: Alan W. Frame
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:00
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andy the pugh <A.C.Pugh@shef.ac.uk> wrote:

> In article <199804170620132334820@newtechd.demon.co.uk>, the moving finger
> of alan.frame@acm.org wrote...
> >
> >Perhaps you might confuse it, but don't re-fit the case screws or it
> >will realise what's going on and certainly fail.
> 
> Case screws? I don't think there as a single threaded fatener in the whole
> machine (unless you count the ones inside the disk drives) 

So have you tried removing those? :-)

I once had a (recycled original Apple internal as external) 40 Meg disk
that would only work upside down if you gave it some "physical
actuation" at *just* the right moment when the machine was booting...

rgds, Alan
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From: alan.frame@acm.org (Alan W. Frame)
Subject: Re: Mac Portable
Date: 1998/04/19
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