[chbot] 5.25" floppy drive anyone?

[Marek Kuziel]

Interesting. I didn't know that. I will check them out for any signs of
bacteria.

I managed to see some data on one of the floppies that I have when I used
"modern" 1.2M(?) floppy drive so I guess they are not "infected" with the
bacteria.

Currently there are two challenges for me. One, find a drive that will
properly read them and two, copy data off the floppies to a hard drive.
Both are so far proving quite hard :)

Marek

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 7:51 AM, Marshland Engineering <
marshland at marshland.co.nz> wrote:

> Maybe different here in NZ but we used to get something like bacteria
> building
> up on old floppies, much the same as camera lenses get. Once you put them
> into
> the drive, the growth ended up damaging both the drive and disk. Check the
> disk is free from growth. If I had to read an old disk again, I would wipe
> it
> with alcohol first.
>
> Cheers Wallace.
>
>
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