Write protect tags

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat Apr 17 01:15:05 2004

On Apr 16, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> Hi
> I just saw something interesting on ebay. Now for
> years, I've been carefully placing the tags on the
> disk nice and square. I even pre-bend them so that
> there is little or no force pulling them off the surface.
> Still, one or another will eventually snag on one of the
> corners and lift up.
> Well, I just saw a disk with the tag mounted such that
> it was diagonally mounted( looks like a little triangle
> from each side ). There are no parallel edges to catch
> on things as one slides the disk in and out. The
> sharp corners that might catch are on the edge of the
> disk and unlikely to cause the tag to lift.
> Has anyone else tried this? What do you think?
> Dwight
>
>

at one time I had some little "stakes" that you
slip into the write protect hole in a 5.25 disk.

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Received on Sat Apr 17 2004 - 01:15:05 BST