[Coco] 360K 3.5 inch floppies... hmmm

Mike Pepe lamune at doki-doki.net
Tue Feb 10 23:31:52 EST 2009


I'd say the best thing to do would be to read the disks and save them as
images onto a more modern storage medium.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of George Ramsower
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:26 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] 360K 3.5 inch floppies... hmmm
> 
>  I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to preserve the integrity of the
> media
> on these difficult to find discs.
>  I keep my unused and unformatted stuff in the dark, humiditiy and
> temperature controlled environment(My Darkroom).
> 
>  Is there a known way to preserve these things any better? Maybe drop
> them
> in liquid Nitrogen and keep them there until ready to use? hehe
> 
>  Really, what is the best method of making sure the magnetic media
> doesn't
> fall off the darned thing or, whatever goes wrong over the years.
> 
> George
> 
> 
> 
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