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Richard Soule
richard.soule at oracle.com
Mon Oct 10 17:09:01 EDT 2005
When I worked at the Research Computing Center in Morse Hall we used to
throw them at each other quite often. Of course that was about 10 years
ago...
Rich
Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Good afternoon! I've a story that shows I've been around computers a
> wee bit too long, perhaps. Back in the late 60's, I was a young 'un.
> Very young, even -- like, 4. And one of my favorite toys was, yes,
> write protect rings for magtapes. I *LOVED* those damn things.
> [Wikipedia knows all, and has an image of some here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_protect_ring ]
>
> Well, I'm due for a kid in March or so.
>
> And I have no write protect rings.
>
> I've E*Bay'd, and poked, and looked, and so forth... and it suddenly
> occured to me that the people on this list would be more likely to know
> where I could get, say, 50 of them, than just about anyone else. I'll
> even pay.
>
> So: suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
>
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