[rescue] Energy

[Tim H.]

Well, back when I was employed, there was a user I supported who came to me one morning and said "Tim, do you think you could take my CD drive apart and get the pieces out?"  At my understandably inquisitive look she went on to explain that she had brought her official Office97 CD in to make a copy for a friend (yeah, she was one of my smarter users) and as she was copying it there was a loud bang, apparently loud enough to cause prairie dogging from 4 or 5 cubes away, and funny noise from the computer.  When she attempted to eject the CD the drawer would only open part way, but she turned the computer upside down and banged on it and got most of the pieces out. (yeah, she was one of my smarter users)  So anyway, I took the drive apart, removed all the pieces of the CD, a couple pieces of drawer, admired the big crack in the plastic drive chassis, put it all back together and it worked.  Apperently under some conditions 40x exceeds the max. rot. speed.  I still have the litt!
le pieces, and I can tell they weren't pirated 'cause you can still see the hologram :-)

Tim 


On Wed, 8 May 2002 14:22:01 -0500
Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:20:49PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > I wish I could find the link from slashdot (it was a year or two ago) where
> > some guys were determined to find the maximum rotational speed of a CD-ROM
> > disc before it self-destructed... anybody else remember this?  They had some
> > SERIOUS dents in protective covers over the motor shaft they were using...
> 
> Bingo -
> 
> http://www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm
> 
> Bill
> 
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