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From: tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Double sided drives?
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 20:57:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 20:57:24 1985
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> > > Does anyone have any knowledge of the Haba double-sided drive
> > > described in the PC Network ad on p.188 of the August MacWorld?
> >
> > ...I called Haba, and they said that the 800k drive is
> > NOT yet available, they are still choosing a vendor for the drives...
> > -- 
> >						Tim Smith
> 
>     Well, I dunno.  My brother bought an "800k" Haba disk from Telasoft
>     In Phoenix about a month ago.  Several interesting things:

My call was about two months ago, I guess, so obviously they are got them
since then.  However, PC Network was definitely advertising them before
Haba was selling them.

> 	o The eject mechanism in the drive will send your disk into low Earth
> 	  orbit if you let it.

This can be great if you fall alseep during a download!  The download
finishes, the Mac ejects the disk, the disk lands on your face, and
you wake up!  Assuming you can get MacTerminal to eject the correct
disk...
-- 
					Tim Smith
				ihnp4!{cithep,wlbr!callan}!tim