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Article #103023Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: fl... Floyd Davidson
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:00
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n...@liverpool.ac.uk wrote: >: >I couldn't find any fridge magnets, and I'm not sure if a phone handset is >: >more or less magnetic, but I left the handset from my fancy at&t darth >: >vader phone on a full disk for 5 minutes, and all the wav files I stuck on >: >it still played ok.. I expected it to break it, whaddya know.. > >: Not only that, but the sound quality was noticeably warmer. > >I slapped a 3 1/2 inch Mac formatted floppy on a laboratory magnetic >stirrer set to full throttle. After 1 hour of whizzing a magnetic flea >around on the disk, the machine read it just fine. I am beginning to >wonder how big a field you need to cpletely raz a floppy. Technically, a magnetic field of 50 oersteds or greater may cause data loss. Practically, two 10 ounce ceramic speaker magnets will unformat a floppy very nicely. Floyd -- Floyd L. Davidson Salcha, Alaska fl...@tanana.polarnet.com
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From: fl...@polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson) Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL? Date: 1996/09/05 Message-ID: <50loot$pvv@news2.cais.com> X-Deja-AN: 178588974 references: <4vf2rs$f6s@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> <502af2$gse@darkwing.uoregon.edu> <5057d8$es1@panix.com> <Dx7JG8.n06@liverpool.ac.uk> organization: __________ reply-to: fl...@tanana.polarnet.com newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit