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Re: Resurrecting dead floppies with alcohol

From "Mr. Business" <mrbusiness@aaathats3as.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.vintage
Subject Re: Resurrecting dead floppies with alcohol
Date 2025-03-30 16:23 -0600
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <27091CC6.28%mrbusiness@aaathats3as.com> (permalink)
References <140920240727420035%vintageapplemac@gmail.com>

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in article 140920240727420035%vintageapplemac@gmail.com, scole at
vintageapplemac@gmail.com wrote on 9/14/24 12:27 AM:

> Well, it's been a few months since I posted to the group asking how to restore
> "dead" floppies, and one tip* that was given was to use isopropyl alcohol.
> 
Sorry to reply so late, but does this involve swabbing the disk with alcohol
or somehow soaking its dust catcher? I happen to have the opposite problem:
almost all of my disks are now unwritable!

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Resurrecting dead floppies with alcohol scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> - 2024-09-14 07:27 +0000
  Re: Resurrecting dead floppies with alcohol Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-09-14 16:55 +0000
  Re: Resurrecting dead floppies with alcohol "Sebastian P." <info@cornica.org> - 2024-09-15 08:39 +0200
    Re: Resurrecting dead floppies with alcohol scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> - 2024-09-29 08:14 +0000
  Re: Resurrecting dead floppies with alcohol "Mr. Business" <mrbusiness@aaathats3as.com> - 2025-03-30 16:23 -0600
    Re: Resurrecting dead floppies with alcohol Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-03-31 12:24 +1300

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