Re: Quick, before they're gone: 5.25" DSDD diskettes

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:02:10 -0600, macuming@gloria.cord.edu wrote:

|>Some of you know the rest already, and my stomach turns in the retelling.
|>She said, "Really?", examined one of the boxes for about 30 seconds, then
|>decided that they were too big to fit into the disk drive on her Mac. 

<sigh>  definitely a UN-9 system admin type....  <g>

|>You would think that in a store existing to fill the needs of elementary
|>and high schools, full of Apple IIs that get used on a daily basis, that
|>the help would know what one is.  In later futile attempts to get
|>information (and observing other frustrated would-be customers), I
|>learned that nobody working in the store even knew the difference between
|>3.5" and 5.25" diskettes.  At least I took advantage of it before they
|>closed permanently.

sounds like why i bother to go to Radio Shack....  i've only met TWO
people there that ever knew what they were talking about.....   (one
of them only knew what an RJ-45 connector was because she remembered
seeing "RJ-11" on a modular phone connector box...)  i like listening
to the sales people throw the technological terms around to people,
while they stand there like a deer staring into the headlights of an
on-coming car....  <evil grin>  90% of the time, the salesperson is
using the terms incorrectly, but, hey....  who am -I- to correct THEM
whn they're talking to a neophyte?  <g>

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