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From: jwi@lzfme.att.com (J.WINER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 5.25" Diskettes for Storage
Summary: Works for me
Message-ID: <1577@lzfme.att.com>
Date: 21 Aug 89 13:31:34 GMT
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> > Roger Hanscom writes:
> > 
> >   Just recently, I discovered that about twenty 5.25" floppies
> > written some 6-7 years ago are completely munged.  The content
> > of the diskettes was no *major* loss, but it is particularly
> > distressing to me to find that the life span of magnetic media
> > is so short....

I have no trouble reading 5.25" floppies written in 1980 on my old
Osborne 1 (I still have the Osborne 1). It sounds like you have
either alignment problems with your drive or you have magnetic field
problems in your storage area.

I have heard of print-through problems on magnetic tape in the music
industry (but not the data industry), but never with floppies. I
suggest, however, that there might be print-through problems if you
jammed them as tight as possible in the boxes. There should be less
of a problem with this with 3.5 as the cases are much thicker.

Jim Winer ..!lzfme!jwi (Please don't email, unable to reply.)

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