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Re: Take1 Movies

bill.martens@gmail.com wrote:

Michael,

I can send you several examples of this issue.  It almost is like they
molded but it is localized to the magnetic media and not the case.  The
disk drives fight to read them but eventually give up on tons of
blocks.

I will mail you a few so you can see what I am talking about.

Cheers

--billm--


Thanks, Bill--I'll see what I can do with them.

I'll email you my snail mail address.

I've had diskettes in the past with moldy spots (about a quarter
inch in diameter, somewhat irregular).  Apparently, some diskette
manufacturers used a lubricant coating that is edible to a mold.

The ones I had were still readable, so maybe it's possible to
coax a good read out of them...

If it comes to it, I may try removing them from their (infected)
sleeves, washing them gently, and inserting them into another
sleeve for reading.

-michael

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