<div dir="ltr">Interesting. I didn't know that. I will check them out for any signs of bacteria.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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 :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Marek</div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 7:51 AM, Marshland Engineering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marshland@marshland.co.nz" target="_blank">marshland@marshland.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Maybe different here in NZ but we used to get something like bacteria building<br>
up on old floppies, much the same as camera lenses get. Once you put them into<br>
the drive, the growth ended up damaging both the drive and disk. Check the<br>
disk is free from growth. If I had to read an old disk again, I would wipe it<br>
with alcohol first.<br>
<br>
Cheers Wallace.<br>
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