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Re: My old floppy disks are decaying! Help!
- Subject: Re: My old floppy disks are decaying! Help!
- From: technoid@prairienet.org (Deven D. Atkinson)
- Date: 1996/01/06
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
You wouldn't happen to be a smoker?
A friend who chain smokes lost several floppies due to contamination.
As I remember, we cut a floppy open, and the liner was a grey/brown
color. He made back-ups of everything and kept on smoking.
I don't know for sure if it was latent smoke, but it was the only thing
we could figure. I have disks from 1982-3 that are still running fine.