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- From: ivan@erich.triumf.ca (Ivan D. Reid)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Courier bag: Do you have one?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 03:22 PST
- Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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- Message-ID: <26JAN199303222562@erich.triumf.ca>
- References: <llrpafINNkp@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1993Jan22.212815.461@pages.com> <1993Jan25.160940.12158@rd.hydro.on.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan25.160940.12158@rd.hydro.on.ca>,
- jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes...
- >Conclusion:
-
- >All flat magnets are made this may, becuase it's cheap. You have to be really
- >close to them for them to work. Is it enough to erase floppies & cards
- >anyway? Don't know. Try it. Put rainsuits in the bottom of your bag until
- >it doesn't erase your floppies anymore.
-
- >Someone please try this:
-
- >Stick your old floppy in the bag, then try to read the floppy. Put your
- >old floppy between your tank and the bag, and then try to read it. I'd be
- >interested to know if there's a difference.
-
- It's not that easy to erase a floppy. I once tried several things
- that are supposed to do it, like putting a telephone on top of the disk
- and letting it ring many times. The only thing that made it unreadable was
- 15 seconds in the microwave (along with a glass of water to provide some
- absorber). Still, the system manager here tells the story of a secretary
- whose backup floppies were always corrupted; eventually they found out that
- she was storing them on the side of a filing cabinet -- with magnetic holders!
- (I just checked one -- they're a stores item -- and the "back" has so little
- magnetism that it won't even pick up a paper clip).
-
- Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH. ivan@cvax.psi.ch
- GSX600F, RG250WD. SI=2.66 "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484
-