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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Junkware
Message-ID: <2861@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 22:51:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 22:51:49 1985
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Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California
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>> Well - sort of.  The problem is that it's only *SOFTWARE* write protected.
>> It seems the Mac drives themselves do not inhibit writes no matter what
>> the position of the tabs.  The Mac O/S gets a signal about the tab position
>> and sets up flags which are supposed to not allow any writes.
>> 
>> So don't think the tab will protect you from program/machine malfunction.
>> (I learned this the NASTY way.)

The Apple Disk Utility on the Software Supplement seems to ignore it also.

I copied on disk to another and found out afterwards that the receiving disk
was 'write protected'.

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