Re: The Pepsi Syndrome and data recovery (Re: OS for Apple //)

[cjb@brushtail.hna.com.au (Chris Baird)]

In comp.sys.apple2,alt.folklore.computers,alt.sysadmin.recovery:

Fred Fraley,
>> I have an old Apple // with memory card laying around, diskettes
>> are all bad, I presume, since a potpourri pot got spilled on them
>> a few years back (don't ask).

Tim Shoppa <shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu>,
 > Don't be so sure that they've gone bad.  I've recovered 5.25" and
 > 8" floppies with everything from coffee to orange juice to Pepsi
 > (I can't be the only person who remembers "The Pepsi Syndrome",
 > can I?) spilled on them.  Here's the procedure:

[5.25" diskette cleaning method snipped]

I've recovered same after my baby sister went through 100+
disks when she had a soiled nappy..  Wow that was a dirty job.
(Only lost a single disk due to physical damage, too.)

-- 
Chris Baird,, <cjb@hna.com.au>