13 Nov
1998
13 Nov
'98
9:52 a.m.
my experience. And unless you put the floppy in
direct physical
contact with the magnets in a PM motor or speaker, you aren't
going to cause any damage. (I've worked with floppies and hard
drives in close proximity to multi-Tesla cryogenic superconducting
magnets without any problems, so speakers and motors don't scare
me!)
When I was working in the RT-11 development group at Digital, I
had a DSD-880. This was an RL02-lookalike and an RX02-lookalike.
But where true RX01s and RX02s from Digital didn't actually write
formatting information, this unit could.
I also had a floppy disk which was mounted on the side of a
file cabinet using a large ring magnet (as is found in some
DEC disk drives). People always figured it was a bad disk
until I took it off the cabinet, put it in the DSD880, formatted
it (for real) and then used it under RT before putting it back
on the cabinet...
It was just fun to see their eyes when I told them it was still
usable...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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