Re: Beagle Bros. catalogs (Re: Basic Apple II commands?)

[tdixon@everest.acpl.lib.in.us (Tim Dixon)]

shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu (Tim Shoppa) wrote:

>In article <448mpe$612@irz1.informatik.uni-kl.de>,
>Burkhard Lehner <cbp4@bordeaux.informatik.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>>
>>I think I read this tricky tip in "Apple ][  The DOS Manual". It was a
>>very funny
>>manual. I remember it said: "A floppy disk can store the information for
>>a long
>>time, unless you play frisbee with it or the dog bites it!" (I don't
>>know what
>>it sounds exactly).
>>Does anyone else remember any jokes in the manual?
>>

>I still remember the Beagle Bros. catalog which contained additional
>pictograms of what *not* to do with your floppies.  The standard
>ones on the back of 5.25" jackets contained such things as "don't
>store near magnetic fields", "don't write on labels with ball point
>pens", etc.  The Beagle Bros. additions contained "Do not fold into
>a paper airplane" and "do not put into hot toaster".  Does anyone
>remember the other entries?  Anyone?  Anyone?

>Tim.

I have a BB disk at home with its original jacket, and I just showed
them to my wife (who grew up on TRaSh-80's and MS-DOG machines).  I'll
look them up and post them here. :-)  BB had great manuals too, as I
recall.

Ahh.  Those were the days.


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