Re: A.P.P.L.E. Crate BBS back online

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

bill.martens@gmail.com wrote:
> Not yet.  I will look for them.   I am assuming that you were able to
> recover all of them from the sounds of the emails.  I guess it means
> that I will have to look at the same procedure for the other 200 or so
> floppies that I have.

I didn't email images yet, but I sent a couple of emails
advising you of my progress.  Perhaps your spam filter
captured them...  ;-(

It appears that the ones with many "spots" on their surface
were expesed to a brown liquid through their write-enable
notches.  The disk liners are discolored in this region.
Perhaps they were stored upside down, and got wet--about
an inch of brown liquid (coffee? coke? discolored water?).

A pair of scissors can easily cut a very thin (~1mm) strip
off the top of the diskette jacket so that the media can
be removed.  It's a good idea to manually move the media
away from the top of the jacket as this is done.

I insert the media into another, clean, jacket for reading,
since the original jacket is not only dirty, but often has
lost its lubricative properties.

-michael

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