Apple Floppy Drives (was: More Apple Pimpers)

From: Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>
Date: Sat Dec 8 23:06:14 2001

My uncle's 286.... this was when a 286 was expensive..... got Playdoe
inserted into one of the floppy drives by my cousin. This is of course
when PC floppy drives were still quite expensive :-)

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

Ethan Dicks wrote:

> My former boss at Software Productions (we wrote kiddie software for home
> computers under the Reader's Digest label) put a story in an early
> version of the docs of how he fired up his Apple ][ to run CP/M and the
> disk drive made odd noises... he took it in for service and the tech
> extracted fragments of a Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich. Seems his kids
> were playing games and eating PB&J and decided the computer must be hungry,
> too...
>
> It's not just oatmeal in the VCR...
>
> -ethan
Received on Sat Dec 08 2001 - 23:06:14 GMT