The indefeatable 8" floppy Was : 8" floppy system needed to recover old game data

Fra: "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> I'm not quite sure that I agree with you. I remember a case where a customer called me, panic stricken, and said that his Mountain 8" loader (I still have the power supply...) had eaten a disc with financial transactions. When I arrived at the site, I saw that the 8" was now a 4" on one side. It was totally mangled by the loaderpart shoving the disk into the drive. Head broken of, etc. New drive, but that was expected. Now we had to look at the mangled disk. There were some dents and scratches, but we decided to try. I sacrificed another 8" disc, in that I opened the sleve and discarded the floppy. In with the "mangled" floppy. It read perfectly, although with a few retries. The epilogue was that my customer sent a civilized letter to his customer, asking him not to put staples through the disc for the future. Nico