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BID : ZL3AI532
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Subj: Re: Best way to store floppies ?
Path: ON0AR<ON0AR<ZL2BAU<ZL3VML
Sent: 021231/0559Z @:ZL3VML.#80.NZL.OC #:55730 [Chch-NZ] FBB7.00i $:ZL3AI532
From: ZL3AI@ZL3VML.#80.NZL.OC
To : FLOPPY@WW
Hi Andy et al,
>Now I was wondering if there has been an "official" best way to store
>floppies.
>
>You know many of them in the oast have ended up with badsectors when I have
>come to use them but many still survive ok.
Sometime I heard that static damage could be a factor with floppies, so
whenever I take one somewhere in my pocket or send one through the mail, I
wrap it in aluminium foil. So far, no errors with foil wrapped discs, but one
or two errors with non-wrapped ones.
A few weeks ago a friend visited me and spotted a floppy with foil around it
and commented that he'd heard of that too.
(Of course, SCANDISK helps to recover floppies with bad sectors, but you tend
to lose some data in the process.)
73, David.
T4 1.5à24
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