4 Nov
2010
4 Nov
'10
10:29 a.m.
Floppies aren't so fragile... someone (on this list?) did some tests with
floppies (5" ones?) a year or so back - in the freezer, buried in the ground
for a while, etc. - and nearly all of them worked again afterwards (the
actual media had to be placed in a brand new floppy case though).
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Stewart" <terry at webweavers.co.nz>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 9:19 PM
Subject: Fragility in the floppy world (was Re: TRS-80 Model II Manuals)
Having spent my whole life considering floppy disks to
be extremely
fragile
things to be handled with great delicacy I was
astonished by the
experience
below.
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2009-02-21-retrieving-data-using-s…
Terry Stewart (tezza)
> But I learned that things in the floppie world wasn't so fragile as I
have
> learned before. And i cleaned my drives many
times using this method,
when
there
wasn't alchool around.
I should write a book ;o)