Re: How to temporarily write-protect 5.25" disks fastly & easily

[Greg Berigan <gberigan@cse.unl.edu>]

drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) wrote:

>Do you get annoyed with the way FASTCOPY makes you write-protect
>disks?  Are you hassled by the rigors of trying to make a bitcopying
>parm, and you have to constantly add & remove the write protect
>sticker on a 5.25" disk?  Do you just plain want some program to NOT
>MESS WITH YOUR DISK??  If so, my futuristic product is for you:

I've seen a similar device advertised years ago made out of plastic.  I
don't recall what it was called though, and would be hard pressed to
find the advertising copy again.

Another neat trick for 3.5" disks that you don't want your kids to use:
get one of those tiny luggage or diary locks and lock it through the
write protect or HD holes of the disk.  This prevents the disk from
entering the drive.

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