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- From: bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst)
- Subject: Re: Using DD disks as HD disks?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.135751.21708@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:57:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.225255.14676@engage.pko.dec.com> ssmith@ncdel.enet.dec.com (Sheldon E. Smith) writes:
- >From responses here,
- >as well as mail received, nobody thinks it's a good idea.
-
- Well, so what? :-] Give it a spin!
-
- Theory is fundamentally inferior to experiment. I use lots of disks
- for moving copies here and there. No problem if the disk dies. Perhaps
- you have similar uses.
-
- My only wonder is how best to make a hole without leaving plastic dust
- inside or in other ways damaging the disk.
-
- Bruce
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