Emax

On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 14:13, rrooyyccee wrote:
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Ferrari" <ferrari5@a...> wrote:
> > ya know i hate to keep bird dogging for this group
> > but on ebay right now
> > there is an emax disc drive
> > 
> > for $30
> 
> I bought it. . . I'll let the group know if it works out.  As it 
> turns out, my floppy magically began working again after I opened 
> the emax II, and shook some dust out of the floppy.  I doubt this 
> will lasts long, though.

You'd be surprised.  Giving the head a good clean is always helpful. 
Since floppy drives are now utterly obsolete in the computing world, you
hardly see cleaning disks any more.  But for those of us who remember
that far back, you had to clean the heads fairly regularly.

As the disks (and drives) get older, they will start to shed more and
more oxide.  Thus, the heads will get mankier and mankier, until the
disks won't read any more (and indeed will be damaged by sticking to the
dirty head).

Cheers,
  Gordon.