[Coco] Removing the tape to make a floppy write protected was not an effective physical block after all

Jim OKeefe jimokeefe39 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 11:11:16 EDT 2020


John,  that indeed was a fun read.  Thanks for sharing it with us.  I still
have a "thing" for floppy drives myself.

Jim

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 9:15 AM John Guin <johnguin at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Today I learned:
> https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/06/a-wild-bug-1970s-intel-8271-disc-chip.html
>
> The author doesn't definitively find the culprit but makes some good
> guesses to the source of the corruption.
>
> Fun reading for a small set of folks.
>
> Enjoy!
> John
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