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11 years old me was afraid about putting some liquid paper on a floppy disk label to write my name could damage the computer.
by Gualdrapo 4y ago
11 years old me was afraid about putting some liquid paper on a floppy disk label to write my name could damage the computer.
- bombcar 4y agoAt a similar age I did a "science project" to see if the big floppies or the small one were better at reading data after being stuck to a fridge with a magnet for a month, and similar with sticking them in a freezer. Every single disk had zero errors.
- bragr 4y agoYou need a moving magnetic field to destroy the data unless you have a very very strong magnetic.
- bombcar 4y agoYep, and temperature doesn't really have an effect on magnets (perhaps at very low or when the disk melts). I do recall that most of the teachers and students thought it was "most surprising outcome" or something like that, from years of "if you put a magnet near your computer or disk it will eat the world" propaganda.