hard-sector 5 1/4 disk

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Mon Nov 5 09:45:47 2001

> On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> > I'd say, from many years' experience, that it is probably, and at
> > best, as poor as it was straight out of the box. The consensus back
> > in '80 was that, equipped with an 8" drive pair, the Apple ][ was a
> > pretty good system, provided one bought the Videx 80x24 display card
> > for it.
>
> I hear people once thought tomatos were poisonous.

Yup... around 1820 in Southern Indiana, most people
who grew them just liked the tiny yellow flowers the
wild tomatoes produced... but a branch of my family
that lived a little further north started eating
them, and spreading the news.

They do carry one or more chemicals that many people
(especially those of Native American ancestry) are
allergic to; in *any* form, they have the effect of
causing my sinuses to swell shut.

-dq
Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 09:45:47 GMT