Making Light:  Taking your own bad advice ::: June 28, 2004, 11:15 AM

Jeremy Leader:

  Aw, gee, now I wish I still had a write ring laying around somewhere
  (from old 9-track tape drives, a write ring was a flexible plastic
  ring maybe 5 or 6 inches in diameter, about 1/4"x1/4" in cross-
  section, which when removed from a slot on the back of a 9-track
  tape reel would tell the drive not to allow writing to that tape.

The good thing about ADD is it teaches you to be a packrat (because
you never know if you spaced out when you filled the hand that is
throwing something away).  Fortunately, I was able to find one that
wasn't buried too deep.  Your description is pretty good, except that
the (outside) diameter is closer to 4.3 inches.

Somewhere around here, I suspect there's a mother lode of the things.
If I find it, perhaps we can have insignias for Noreascon.