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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (4239)11/17/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: Chucky  Read Replies (2) of 10072
 
Rocky, won't that also help a Zip250 or Zip100 drive differentiate between the two different disk capacities: kind of like the little hole in the upper left corner HD vs. DD floppies? I imagine the phosphorescence keeps the Zip100 drive from recognizing the reflective pattern through the window and not allowing it to be read/written by the 100MB drives, while possibly requiring little change to the actual sensor for the new drive to use both disks--just speculation on my part.

"try and deter counterfeit Zip250 discs from being made"
Would that be a bad thing? In what way is it convoluted?

Later
Chucky
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