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Re: Question about transfering image file from PC to Apple IIe using ADT



BLuRry wrote:

Blank without 3.3 -- however you might want to format and verify the
disk just to make sure it doesn't have any media errors.  Those
floppies die so easily.  And nowadays we have many more sources of
electro-magnetic radiation to kill them faster (don't leave your
cellphone near your floppies -- have you heard what it sounds like next
to a speaker?)

Another urban myth...

The only thing in a cellphone that could possibly be harmful to
floppies is the permanent magnet in the speaker--and its field is
very weak outside the phone.

Electromagnetic radiation is practically harmless to magnetic
media.

And Apple floppies *do not* die easily--they are quite robust under
most storage conditions.

-michael

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