13 Feb
2004
13 Feb
'04
3:20 a.m.
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
I do know that some monitors can produce a strong
enough
field to disturb the writing action on floppies. I've not
had them erase by these fields but it seems that the writing
of the floppy is more sensitive to stray fields. I found
that increasing the distance by as little a a telephone book
can make the difference.
Ok, another experiment: place a floppy disk with data on a large monitor
and hit the degauss button, then check to see what is left on the disk :)
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