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Hi Alan
Doesn't put it in the refrigerator, please, it is not the heat what damages them, it is the humidity.
I live in Puerto Rico (USA), a beautiful island in the Caribbean sea. In here, if you live near a lake or the sea, the diskette or floppies deteriorates quickly, but if you keep them in a sealed container, like empty cans of cookies, they last years. Better if you use any drying material in the container. I hope you understand my english and this help you.
Luis Martinez
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www.colormar.com
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:02:46 +1000, Alan Eugene Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Please bear in mind I live in the tropics, and cannot keep my
>diskette collections under any kind of standard conditions.
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>Almost invariably, it seems, diskettes more than a year old are
>unreadable. Is there anything I can do to save them? What physically
>is happening to the media that makes it (apparently) impossible for
>the fdd to read the disks?
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>Thanks for any help.
>
>Alan
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