13 Nov
1998
13 Nov
'98
1:55 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
Yes, that's what I was talking about. When
someone warns you not
to put your floppies near magnets, particularly refrigerator magnets,
I defy them to do any damage with one. As I recall, aren't these
plasticized magnets magnetized in thin strips, and don't have
distinct "ends" like a bar magnet?
Yeah, those modern reefer magnets are wimps -- seems to take at
least two of the things to hold a single sheet of paper, sometimes
more. (Well, _here_ consistently more, we have cats -- cat hair
being a measurable component of the atmosphere has its own effect
on removeable media devices).
The stories about customers attaching floppies to filecabinets with
speaker magnets (and one of those was a customer of mine) all seem
to be from the days of 8" floppies holding no more than a half meg
to a side. Modern media is harder to kill magnetically, aside from
the fact that it's hard to find an easily portable magnet that will
hold itself to to a surface through the thickness of 3.5" media
packaging.
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