🚀 go-pugleaf

ea...@wwa.com (the kumquat kuriosity) wrote:

>Agreed. I've rubbed some high-powered magnets (not fridge magnets, but a
>large metal jobber that can hold a full manilla folder to the file cabinet)
>over an 800K floppy... did the scrub-scrub motion for about a minute or
>two, and popped in the disk. fine.

Well, guess what: I can't get the media to fail, either.  This
wouldn't bother me if I hadn't lost so much data on floppies.  Grrrr.
Well, we have a phone test box at work that will cause a phone to
ring.  So, I'll take my old AT&T slimline phone (with mechanical bell)
down and continue this.

So, a question: what is it that will cause a disk to go bad in the
five minutes it takes me to drive to work?  It sure as heck isn't
magnetism.  :-/  I can't count the number of times I've gone home to
grab something, put it on a floppy, drove to work, and couldn't read
the disk.

= Warren -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent