20 Jun
2007
20 Jun
'07
3:36 p.m.
. . . and, if you magnetize the ferrous hub and shutter of 3.5"
diskettes, then you can store them on the refrigerator
Getting serious for a moment, it suprised me at first that 3.5" floppy
disks (and for that matter many demountable hard disk packs, RK's, RLs,
etc) are held to the spindle by a magnetic ring on the end of said
spindle. It doesn't seem to have an adverse effect on the data...
Incidentally, I always rip the shutters off defective 3.5" floppies. I've
used said shutters for many applications that need a bit of shim stock
(like inserting and removing flexiprints from a certain design of connector).
-tony