I think your parents might’ve dropped you as a child.
daggermoon@piefed.world 1 week ago
I don’t think that would damage it.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 1 week ago
daggermoon@piefed.world 1 week 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.
observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 6 days 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.
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 6 days 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)
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days 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…