Re: How to damage a floppy?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

I guess I phrased things poorly again. The magnet I used wasn't a small
fridge
magnet but likely strong enough to hold a pair of sneakers to the fridge.

After 2 years the program on the disk stuck to the disk still ran fine with
no
noticable difference.

    Wayne

Simon Biber wrote:

> 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.