On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:56:39AM +0100, Christian Corti wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, Jos Dreesen wrote:
> >>Eric Smith and I have been looking for these for a long time.
> >>They are BASF floppies, though.
> >
> >As are mine... ( some 3M and CDC disk also part of the haul )
> >Does that mean they will need baking ?
>
> Never had any problems with 8" BASF floppies (and 5¼" BTW).
Can't speak for the 8", had no problems with 5¼" (but used them very
little), but the BASF 3½" were horrible. It got to the point where
we jokingly expanded the company name BASF to "Byte Abweisende Schutz-
Folie" (byte rejecting protective film).
Kind regards,
Alex.
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