Re: TECH?:how2get stuck diskette out

[Virginia Lafrance <VLAFRANCE@JR.SIBLEY-EAST.K12.MN.US>]

>Date:          Fri, 14 Feb 1997 07:11:54 EST
>Reply-to:      Julia Files Steger <jsteger@PEN.K12.VA.US>
>From:          Julia Files Steger <jsteger@PEN.K12.VA.US>
>Subject:       TECH?:how2get stuck diskette out
>To:            LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
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>Does anyone have a clever way of removing a diskette stuck in
>a drive? (Even a routine way is fine...!)  Just do not want to
>damage the drive. Diskette would not eject following a
>successful and completed backup;no error messages.
>The unit is a Premio brand.
>Thanks,
>Julia
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>layer of black elec. tape around the end so the disk wouldn't be scratched
and there wouldn't be any magnetic (?) charge (?) discharge.  I think two
fine blades from jack knives would also work.

I like your quote.