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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by bornfreddy on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:29PM (#32826506)
I didn't know the temperature mattered?

Otherwise with new floppies I always reformatted and checked for bad blocks first. Some of the series were very bad quality.

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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by myth_drannon on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:54PM (#32827894)
nah, some just melted. It was on the front seat with no shadow in Israeli +40C degrees heat.
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