tictech: Floppy drives with stuck disk shuttles

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While we're on the subject of floppy drives...

I know most of us have fished for the little metal floppy spring loaded
shuttles in floppy disk drives a time of two...
I usually use a straightened paper clip with a little hook on the end to get
them out but in some cases it's still difficult
(Particularly when theres more than two or some one maliciously put
something into the drive itself ! )

Did you know that on the Dell floppys it's really easy to pop the top of the
drive off !
Simply remove the drive from the computer and
use a small screwdriver and pop the floppy drive top off. Then its an easy
matter to access the inards !

Fred Aasheim
Tech Specialist
Garfield High School
flaasheim@seattleschools.org

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