Re: Jumping Disk?

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From: Paul Doherty (pauld@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2001 - 13:40:34 PST 

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:40:34 -0800
From: Paul Doherty <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Re: Jumping Disk?

>On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Doug Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>> Does anyone know of a place I could buy the "Jumping Disks" that Edmund
>> Scientific sold for many years. I would like to buy some but can't find a
>> vendor.
>
>I heard a story that the person who produced these has died, and nobody
>managed to figure out how to keep the disk-making machine in tune so the
>disks it was making would reliably jump.
>
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