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to: JASEN BETTS
from: CHARLES ANGELICH
date: 2003-12-15 04:58:00
subject: Re: Knoppix

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Hello Jasen - 

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TW>> IBM used to have motorized Eject Floppy drive on the
TW>> origional PS2 computers. 

JB> hmm the PS/2 floppy drive I have has a bright blue eject
JB> button with "1.44" written on it... it came out of a 386sx
JB> based ps/2 

JB> I haven't looke closeley enough to see if it has an eject
JB> motor... 

I've had 2 PS/2s here. One was the 80286 and the other was the
80386sx. Neither had motorized eject but they did have a spring
that tossed the floppy halfway out of the drive when you pushed
the eject button. :-) 

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