The indefeatable 8" floppy Was : 8" floppy system needed to recover old game data

[Nico de Jong]

Fra: "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net>
>
> Again most 8" media is real old and there were a few brands of media that
> aged poorly [worse if mishandled] with media shedding being a really big
> problem.
>
I'm not quite sure that I agree with you. I remember a case where a customer
called me, panic stricken, and said that his Mountain 8" loader (I still have
the power supply...) had eaten a disc with financial transactions.
When I arrived at the site, I saw that the 8" was now a 4" on one side. It was
totally mangled by the loaderpart shoving the disk into the drive. Head broken
of, etc.
New drive, but that was expected. Now we had to look at the mangled disk. There
were some dents and scratches, but we decided to try.
I sacrificed another 8" disc, in that I opened the sleve and discarded the
floppy. In with the "mangled" floppy. It read perfectly, although with a few
retries.
The epilogue was that my customer sent a civilized letter to his customer,
asking him not to put staples through the disc for the future.

Nico