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daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I agree. I purposely applied magnets to floppies and like…maybe 9/10 had issues but generally it was a non-issue.

  Now…filling a floppy disk with shaved off match head dust…

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• musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think your parents might’ve dropped you as a child.

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  • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Floppy discs are more resilient than that. I’ve seen videos with people testing it. It took a more powerful magnet to corrupt the data on it. I should test it myself. I don’t think a magnet like that would do any harm.

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    • observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Age might be a factor though. Recently I found a stash of floppies from around 2002, which were definitely good when they were stored. I think I was eventually able to extract only about 20% of the data.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        noooo my floppy stash

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  • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    drives are actually not that vulnerable to magnetic interference. if they where… well we are sitting on a giant magnet all the time (earth)

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