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From: HMPQC@CUNYVM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Dead floppies
Message-ID: <90355.184703HMPQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: 21 Dec 90 23:47:03 GMT
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I agree that age is a floppy disk's most insidious enemy. It creeps up and all
of a sudden, pow: This disk is unreadable. Do you want to initialize?
But dirty floppy drive heads can also do damage. This is especially a problem
on publicly accessible Macs, like in a university setting. It's a pain to
clean drives on a regular basis, but an important part of a maintenance
schedule.

Henry M. Pita
Internet: hmpqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Bitnet: hpita@qcvax