From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 100e2d,71f3d03cb8013102 X-Google-Attributes: gid100e2d,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed7b,71f3d03cb8013102 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed7b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,71f3d03cb8013102 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,71f3d03cb8013102 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,71f3d03cb8013102 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public From: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) Subject: Re: [offtopic] storage like you've always wished it could be: HUGE Date: 1999/12/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 556233709 References: <384525EA.78EF0B71@compuserve.com> X-Complaints-To: news@wenet.net X-Trace: news.wenet.net 944234711 208.178.101.2 (Fri, 03 Dec 1999 07:25:11 PST) Organization: Birthright Party "The birthright of humankind is the stars!" Reply-To: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 07:25:11 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,talk.bizarre,misc.misc,comp.graphics.misc Date: 1999-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <384525EA.78EF0B71@compuserve.com>, DPH wrote: >'Tis awesome all right. But since the disk is totally transparant, >where do you put the label? Etched into an edge, I suppose, either the inner, spindle edge, or the outer, "meets the pavement" edge. Just be careful not to etch away so much material in pursuit of legibility that the spinning disk becomes unstable at 7600 RPM. Whichever edge you etch the label into, you support the diskette by the other edge to read the label. Oops! If we don't quickly standardize on where the label goes, folks won't know whether to read the label with the diskette supported spindle style, on the pinky, or discus style, with fingers around the edge. Mass chaos could ensue, worse than the VHS/Betamax debacle, meaning the end of civilization (and thus, more importantly, Usenet) as we know it. Do you want to convene the ANSI technical committee to address this critical standardization issue, or shall I? ===== random archival quality quote ===== [On the question of whether a father has any right to demand abortion of a child he tried sincerely to avoid creating and wants not to support, that corresponds to the mother's right to abort an inconvenient pregnancy.] Does the kid have any rights in all this? Should the kid just have been a better little foetal capitalist and planned for all this? -- Barry Schein -- Kent Paul Dolan. Pretense of web presense [poorly hidden] at http://www.well.com/user/xanthian (just dumps you into a directory: glitz minus). [Even more poorly maintained.]