shipping floppy disk drives

From: Sellam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sun Apr 18 00:39:31 1999

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Bill Yakowenko wrote:

> I'll be shipping a few floppy disk drives soon, and want to minimize
> the shipping damage to them. So, is it better to ship them with the
> drive door open or closed? And with or without a floppy inserted?

With floppy inserted and drive door closed. It keeps the heads from
bouncing around.

Those white paper inserts you see once in a while did have a purpose after
all.

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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