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Page 1-5 has tips for "Caring for Your Diskettes" including: > Keep it away from electrical equipment (including the telephone and TV). Was this a legitimate
by elliekelly 5y ago
Page 1-5 has tips for "Caring for Your Diskettes" including:
> Keep it away from electrical equipment (including the telephone and TV).
Was this a legitimate tip or an overly cautious manual? I know magnets could potentially damage floppy disks but could telephones and tube televisions, too?
- op00to 5y agoYes, telephones created magnetic fields when the bell rang. Simarly tube tvs degaussed themselves with big magnets. Either will erase a floppy.
- emptybits 5y ago1983 floppy user here. Small permanent and/or electromagnets would be driving the metal bell ringers of many telephones in those days. Don't store them under your telephone. But floppies were always hanging out on and beside and behind computer monitors which, in those days, were exclusively CRTs like TVs. Perhaps don't store your floppies on top of the speakers on the family console TV.