schmidtd wrote:
On Apr 29, 7:19 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:schmidtd wrote:Hint: the floppies lose.So, it turns out... The magnets on the iPad 2 cover are pretty strong. You have been warned. :-/So making computers and accessories with strong, accessible magnets is the latest sign that the floppy age is over... ;-) This would have been unheard of in the 1990s!You bet. I imagine the same is true of magnetic strips on the backs of credit cards - but I'm not willing to test that!
True. I've always been amazed at the prevalence of strong magnetic catches on women's purses. They must accidentally demagnetize thousands of credit cards per year. Hmmm, maybe thats a blessing... ;-) -michael NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."