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Article #689Re: Wiping out floppies (was: User's do the darnedest things)
From: Thomas Lapp
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 00:23
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 00:23
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> I always doubted these "erase a floppy with a magnet" stories until I left
> about a dozen 3.5" amiga diskettes sitting underneath a monitor (turned on)
> for about 6 months. Most of them were well and truly munged.
>
Slightly off the track, but I wonder how many people put videotapes on
top of their colour TVs? I would think that there is a whole generation
of people who will not be able to play certain tapes because they left
them on top of the set (or next to it)....
(This comes from a person who keeps all disks at least two feet away from
TVs, monitors, printers, speakers, and vacuum cleaner motors).
- tom
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