modern removable media drives

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri Nov 13 13:26:00 1998

At 06:19 PM 11/13/98 -0000, Eric Smith wrote:
>
>Geez, people, I never claimed that you could dump huge piles of dust, smoke,
>dirt, and sand on the floppy disk and expect it to work for more than five
>seconds. My point was that you don't have to be super-careful with them.

If we began to discuss the agents that can *actually* destroy data
on floppies or other media, as opposed to what urban legend and
"conventional wisdom" maintains as dangerous, that would be fun!

- John
Received on Fri Nov 13 1998 - 13:26:00 GMT