Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???

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From: Richard RUDEK
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:00

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krw@ibm.net (Keith R. Williams) wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:20:13, ratranch@svpal.svpal.org (Charles 
>Mosher) wrote:
>
>> With all you folks having trouble with floppies and tapes being corrupted,
>> _where_ are you storing them?  I initially format all floppies to make

[snip]

>You are very fortunate.  I store mine on a shelf right above my 
>computers.  My house temperature varies a bunch from summer to 

[snip]

Oops. Ever heard of a degausing coil ?  You know, the coil that
demagnetises tube of your monitor when you switch it on...

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From: NoMailThanks@FollowupInstead.com (Richard RUDEK)
Subject: Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???
Date: 1998/06/12
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