Re: How to damage a floppy?

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

A fridge magnet is very weak. You might change a few bits here and there,
enough to make the disk's contents suspect. On the whole it won't wipe the
disk.

Get a strong magnet. Or make a reasonable sized coil (20V on 400 turns
around an iron nail or bolt).

Simon.


"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote in message
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> I keep running into publications and messages saying: keep floppies
> away from magnets, monitors, speakers, power supplies etc. Now I've
> tried my best to erase a floppy. I stuck one to the fridge with a magnet
>
> for two years and a box of floppies has sat on top of a speaker for I
> don't
> know how many years. The only way I've actually been able to erase a
> disk is with a Graphic tablet or a disk drive. So I'm wondering, has
> anyone ever erased software in a way they attribute to any of these
> things we keep getting cautioned against.
>
>     Wayne
>