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From: ir320@sdcc6.UUCP (ir320)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Erasing Disks
Message-ID: <1960@sdcc6.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 12:32:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 11 12:32:14 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 13-Mar-85 04:04:39 EST
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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I had seen ads advertising a device to erase floppy disks much as a
tape eraser works on cassettes.  I had heard that this increases the
life of old disks, much as tape life is extended (or at least the
usefulness of old tape) by the tape eraser.  The device claimed to
allow disks to have their lives extended via a "repositioning of the
magnetic particles on the disk to the pattern they were set at by the
factory."  This doesn't sound quite kosher.  Can disk life REALLY be
extended by periodic erasing?

John Antypas
UC San Diego

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