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Article #103061Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: bri... Brian Raiter
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:00
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Ron Hunsinger <hns...@sirius.com>: > - A 3.5" floppy has a plastic case the provides a little physical > separation between the recording surface and an external magnet. > This does make a difference. When I tried the same experiment with > a 5.25" disk, the magnet did indeed produce bad sectors. And indeed, all the stories I've heard about people accidentally ruining their disks with refridgerator magnets date back to before the use of 3.5" floppies. b
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From: bri...@speakeasy.org (Brian Raiter) Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL? Date: 1996/08/29 Message-ID: <504ut5$h5h@eve.speakeasy.org> X-Deja-AN: 177225820 references: <4vf2rs$f6s@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> <4vsg0a$pr4@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <4vvdb4$6a@lex.zippo.com> <hnsngr-2908961122430001@news.sirius.com> organization: Speakeasy, Inc., Seattle WA newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit