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Skriven 2005-07-04 13:25:00 av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JAY EMRIE
Ärende: Re: Undelete.
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JE>RF> RF> JE> Older magnetic media (floppies and tape) has a bad habit of doin
JE>RF> RF> JE> exactly that.

JE>RF> RF> True, but should demonstrate the same inconsistency on other machine
JE>RF> RF> too.  If the issue is limited to one machine, I would suspect the
JE>RF> RF> drive.

JE>RF> JE> Basically yes, EXCEPT that all floppy drives and tape readers aren't
JE>RF> JE> truly equal - also not considering possible oxide build up on the re
JE>RF> JE> head/s. This oxide build up is why it was routine maintenance in IBM
JE>RF> JE> clean the tape drive heads often - even once a shift when usage was
JE>RF> JE> heavy.

JE>RF> Good point.  Cleaning is probably a sore spot with most users.  I've
JE>RF> been just as guilty as anyone else.

JE>Join my club - I'm president!

Jay and Robert,

I guess I've been a member of that club way back in my Commodore 64
days.

One of my friends who used a Apple II then, told me putting a Cleaning
Disk into a floppy drive was like rubbing sandpaper on the heads and he
never would use a cleaning disk unless he started losing data from a
disk he was loading.

I've always followed his wisdom and so far I've never bought a Cleaning
Disk to use, even though I've seen them on sell at very low prices way
back a long time ago.
I don't know if they are sold any longer, I haven't looked.


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