6 May
2024
6 May
'24
6:28 p.m.
You do need a very strong magnet. I’ve put 3.5 floppies on top of a mag tape demagnitizer
( not technically called that, but you know what i mean) and it had no effect at all. I
could still read them fine in my pc. I surmised that the magnetic field generated was not
strong enough to get through the plastic disk shield. Gave up after that.
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On May 6, 2024, at 03:28, Just Kant via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have a vague recollection of someone telling me there was a trick to demagnetizing
high density disks. Perhaps wave a magnet in various ways, even moving the magnet to and
from the disk's surface. Then again maybe it's just a chatgpt style hallucination.
Wouldn't hurt to try though.