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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Pizza Hut erases diskettes
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Dec30.000429.24047@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:15:29 GMT
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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.
-
- :-)
-
- --
- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
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