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Subject: Protecting Disk ][ diskettes
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 08:52:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 08:52:36 1985
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Re: Disk ][ write-protect mechanism problems (Oh, woe is me !!)

> Couldn't you also just install a switch to enable/disable the write control
> line? This would fix your problem without getting a new plastic gizmo.
> --Chuck
 
Sure, you can.  It's very easy, and there's an article in the September A+ 
MAgazine that shows just how to do it.  The protect mechanism is just an SPST 
switch - the article shows how to install an alternate-action switch, lighted 
and all, on the Disk ][ front panel to replace the normal protect detector.

There is, however, one serious word of caution.  You may have a protected disk 
that you really don't want to write on, and if the panel switch is in the 
Unprotect position and you do write on the disk, too bad -- caveat hackor.

Cheers,
Dick Binder   (The Stainless Steel Rat)

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