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05-13-2003, 02:16 PM
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floppy drive
I have a 3 1/2" floppy drive made by Mitsumi that I've had for almost 10 years. It has been used in about 7 of my computer builds and the thing just keeps on going. Well, today, i thought it was dead because i was getting the occasional "Disk I/O error", so I took it out of the case and sprayed it down real good with compressed air. A TON of dust came out and now the thing works like new again. It just won't die! I see no point in replacing something like this until it completely dies so I guess I saved myself 10 bucks by getting all the dust out of it lol. I guess this goes to show that Mitsumi floppy drives are great. Maybe in 10 more years I'll have to air-dust it again
 (not like we'll be using floppies in 10 years lol)-Andrew Last edited by drewK7VT2; 05-13-2003 at 02:19 PM. |
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05-13-2003, 04:54 PM
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Lol, it seems like only floppy drives can be used in build after build.
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05-13-2003, 06:40 PM
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Same thing happened to me, the drive would take forever trying to find the floppy disk, then give an error.
so I dismantled the drive as far as I could and hit it with the air compressor, ran a Q-tip with alcohol over the heads, runs great. definitley a rugged drive. |
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05-14-2003, 01:06 AM
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Lo and behold! How floppies cling desperately to life in a world that wants to see them extinct by the end of the year!
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05-25-2003, 12:13 PM
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What's a floppy ?
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05-25-2003, 05:33 PM
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A floppy is something you have to steal out of your mom's computer when you need it, RJ
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05-25-2003, 08:04 PM
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yea they are pretty useless for anything these days except loading operating system files.
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05-26-2003, 07:19 AM
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LONG LIVE THE FLOPPY
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