On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 16:47:18 -0800, John Ings
wrote:

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:49:05 +0000, Mark Rand
wrote:

I brought about fifty similar disks home from work last week. They are being
mined for fridge magnets!

If you are interested in a moneymaking idea, try this:
Remove the drive bubble so the discs, drive heads and actuators are
visible. Buy cheap ($10) battery operated quartz clock movements from
one of those craft stores, along with numbers for the dial. They're
intended for making wall clocks out of plates, varnished slices off
logs and whatever. You can get them with 1 inch long threaded shafts.

Drill a hole for the movement through the center of the disc assembly
(obligatory metalwork content). Glue the numbers to the top of the
disc to make a clock face. Add a keyhole at the back to hang the thing
up with. I've seen such novelty constructs selling for $50

A few years ago, a chap was making clocks out of XT mother boards and
trying to sell them at a local flea market, didn't stay in business
long.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada