FAQ

From: dcoward <dcoward_at_pressstart.com>
Date: Fri Apr 18 22:44:13 1997

  I was just reading the FAQ and thought that I should add my two cents.

6.1 What's the best way to clean these dingy tan boxes?

  Paper items:
  About a year ago, I found an Osborne Starter Kit in a thrift store.
  This is a ring bound manual and some audio cassettes to get a new
  user started, packaged in a flat cardboard box, the kind with a glossy
  surface. Well the box had been wrapped many times with that inch and a
  half clear packaging tape to prevent it from being opened. I knew that
  if I tried to remove the tape that I would remove most of the surface
  of the box too.
   Then I had an idea. I removed the manual and the tapes from the box
  by cutting the tape around the edge of the box. And then I put the box
  in the freezer for a few hours until it was nice and cold. I still had
  to be careful removing the tape but the tape didn't stick to the box
  as well as it did when it was warm. And it didn't leave any glue behind.

  The one that I havn't licked yet is how to remove crayon price marking
  from a paper diskette label or a book page without it smearing or bleeding
  into the paper.

7.4 What disk sizes are there?

  A floppy diskette is 8" in width.
  A mini floppy diskette is 5.25" in width.
  A micro floppy diskette is 3.5" in width.
  And computers like the Amstrad CPC6128 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum+3 use
  a compact floppy diskette which is 3.15" or 8 cm in width.

  I also have diskettes made by Nintendo (the word Nintendo is embossed
  in the plastic) for the Nintendo Family Computer. I don't know what
  they're called and I haven't measured one yet, but as I remember they
  are just a little smaller than a micro floppy.
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  My computer collection up on the web still needs a lot of work, but
  I'm looking for suggestions about:
   - the way it's laid out
   - are the pictures too big to download quickly
   - is there incorrect information
  If you can help me out, my collection is located at
  www.best.com/~dcoward/museum Thanks
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>>Is everyone else in their 20's and 30's? Anyone seriously outside of
>>this range?

  I'm 210 years old in computer years.


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                                       dcoward_at_pressstart.com
Doug Coward
Senior Software Engineer
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale CA
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Received on Fri Apr 18 1997 - 22:44:13 BST