[H-GEN] Floppies
john duncan
katie4 at eisa.net.au
Thu Feb 14 16:38:48 EST 2002
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----- Original Message -----
From: "bob parker" <bobparker38 at yahoo.com>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Floppies
> FWIW I use the $5.00 +/- a few cents Magmedia from
> Woolworths or BigW. I hardly ever have any trouble
> with them.
> BTW you do clean your floppy drive regularly don't
> you?
> Very cheap cleaning diskettes are available at BigW
> <$4.00, or you can pay 3 times that at Dick Smiths.
> Cheers
> Bob
These are the ones I use and I do follow the
procedures everyone recommends. My floppy drive
has not had a lot of use so should be OK.
I might do some experimenting on another
machine and see what happens.
Thanks to all for their ideas,
John Duncan
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