On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 11:20 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
When I first encountered a customer who had disk drive problems such that we replaced the 8in drives in their Radio Shack Model II several times, it wasn't until I went on-site to find that they were storing their floppies by sticking them to the file cabinet with refrigerator magnets. The amazing thing to me was that I found that this was a fairly common problem.
Then there was the person who stapled the floppy to a cover letter.
Just turning the machine off, with the 8" floppy still in the drive would spike the boot sector. Luckily I knew a guy that could resurrect it. That was on the IMSAI VDP-88 with voice-coil. By the time I got it, they weren't making replacement boot disks as IMSAI was long out of business. Govt. State Surplus is your friend, if you're into old iron. :) Ric