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Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?

Subject: Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?
From: wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 07:29:25 -0000
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vairxpert@hotmail.com (vairxpert) wrote in
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> Have you ever owned a one piece computer system?  Those systems were
> designed to work that way so there is no reason people shouldn't have
> bought one.  Just about every high end serious business computer was
> all one piece with either 5ï¿½" or 8" floppy drives back in the early
> 80's.  The floppy drives on my TRS-80 Model III still work fine till
> this day and have never had a problem with losing data.  My guess is
> the Apple systems had a shielded drive tower just as my Model III
> does.
> 
> Toss a disc or cassette right over any monitor (where there is no
> shielding) and there's going to be problems, especially at start up
> when the degausing coil is activated for a few seconds.
> 
> George
> 

Put a quarter inch metal plate inbetween and you can reflect any of the 
magnetics. It was as simple as that. If you reflect the magnetics away 
from the disk drive mechanism. You will be just fine. Just keep the disk 
away from the back of the tube and away from speakers. The field is about 
4". A metal plate can take care of that.

References:
- World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?
  - From: ppanks@juno.com (Paul Allen Panks)
- Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?
  - From: vairxpert@hotmail.com (vairxpert)
- Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?
  - From: Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>
- Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?
  - From: Peter Thomas <see-my-sig@hotmail.com>
- Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?
  - From: vairxpert@hotmail.com (vairxpert)

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