You think that’s bad? The secretary at my first job was told to keep that 5 1/4 floppy safe. So she stapled it to a cardboard divider in her binder.
She’s in a rest home telling stories about the time she scared her co-worker by making a duplicate of an important disk and stapling it to a binder.
You could staple them anywhere in a significant portion of the corners outside the circle inhabited by the disc and be fine, but I think you’d want to to remove the staple before getting it stuck in a drive.
I don’t miss that loading sound though, or the dreaded clicking when it was hunting for corrupted data.
How’s your back doing?
i made it… six years older than my dad when he was told he needed his first back surgery so i got that going for me.
you can tell it’s old, because it’s not neodymium magnet
what the hell how did i get this cesium magnet
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I don’t think that would damage it.
I agree. I purposely applied magnets to floppies and like…maybe 9/10 had issues but generally it was a non-issue.
Now…filling a floppy disk with shaved off match head dust…
I think your parents might’ve put a giant magnet against your head as a child, because you’re completely reasonable and resilient like a floppy disk.
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drives are actually not that vulnerable to magnetic interference. if they where… well we are sitting on a giant magnet all the time (earth)
Floppy disks are more resilient than that. I’ve seen videos with people testing it. It took a more powerful magnet to corrupt the data on it. I should test it myself. I don’t think a magnet like that would do any harm.
Age might be a factor though. Recently I found a stash of floppies from around 2002, which were definitely good when they were stored. I think I was eventually able to extract only about 20% of the data.
noooo my floppy stash
Better get to backing up those lo-res titty pics sooner rather than later.
It’s my original copies of Quest for Glory. Version 1!
That being the case, you might want to back up your original copies of Quest for Glory, Version 1. Is it the original 1989 EGA release or the 1992 VGA remake? I’ve never heard of the game before your comment but I read about it on Wikipedia out of curiosity. The game is quite a bit older than me. I find it interesting.
