21 Jun
2007
21 Jun
'07
12:52 p.m.
On 20 Jun 2007 at 23:36, Tony Duell wrote:
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...
DC magnetic fields, unless VERY strong (read NIB magnet in contact
with the surface) seem not to have much of an effect on recorded data
on floppies.
Cheers,
Chuck