25 Feb
2009
25 Feb
'09
12:25 p.m.
floppies to save our work. Kids who were new to
computers kept their
disk in a text book, like a book mark, thinking it would keep them
Yes, I've seen that happen too...
safe. It ended up flattening the outer jacket to the
point where the
disk couldn't spin anymore. In those cases, we'd do the same thing.
Cut it open and put it in the jacket from another disk so we could
retrieve the data. I was always surprised by how robust they were.
The few times I had to retreive data from such disks, I just ripped the
jacket open on one side, slid out the actual magnetic disk, and 'mounted
a naked floppy' -- that is, I removed the cover from the disk drive unit,
slid the circlar magnetic disk in (no jacket), centered it over the
spindle clamped it. And the, of course, backed it up to a new disk.
-tony