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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk safety question
Message-ID: <2909@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 23:47:21 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2909
Posted: Sat Dec  5 23:47:21 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Dec-87 04:44:04 EST
References: <407@ndmath.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: Really

In article <407@ndmath.UUCP> nj@ndmath.UUCP (Narciso Jaramillo) writes:
> 
> Suppose, hypothetically, that you were eating a pizza very near your
> disk box (Amiga disks here).  And suppose, hypothetically, that the pizza
> you were eating had just recently been severely rewarmed--i.e. greasy.
> 
> Further suppose that you dropped a slice of this extremely greasy pizza into
> the aforementioned disk box, thus causing several disks to get slimed...
> grease, pieces of sausage, onions...
 
oops...

> The question:
> 
> If you can't get the grease out of some of the disk jackets, are they still
> safe to use?  Assume that none of the grease got under the little metal
> thing to hit the disk surface.

The answer is no, they aren't safe!  Who wants any yicky-poo organic
grease or slime inside their disk drive?  Howver if you clean them up
as much as possible, it probably safe to stick them in the drive and
copy the data to a nice squeaky clean disk, with only minimal risk of
damage to you or your machine. 

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|ihnp4|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)