hard-sector 5 1/4 disk - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Nov 2001

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  On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:

  I'd say, from many years' experience,
that it is probably, and at
 best, as poor as it was straight out of the box.  The consensus back
 in '80 was that, equipped with an 8" drive pair, the Apple ][ was a
 pretty good system, provided one bought the Videx 80x24 display card
 for it.  
 I hear people once thought tomatos were poisonous. 
Yup... around 1820 in Southern Indiana, most people 
who grew them just liked the tiny yellow flowers the
wild tomatoes produced... but a branch of my family
that lived a little further north started eating
them, and spreading the news.

They do carry one or more chemicals that many people
(especially those of Native American ancestry) are
allergic to; in *any* form, they have the effect of
causing my sinuses to swell shut.

-dq