Microdrive felt pads (again...)

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adev
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Re: Microdrive felt pads (again...)

Post by adev »

Thanks for all the replies!

Most of my own cartridges are already dumped to disk, so they'll be the last ones on the list to do. Fortunately, my disks are mostly 5 1/4", which seem (amazingly) to be more robust than the 3 1/2" variety, despite the hard plastic shell. Don't talk to me about HD disks.. nearly all my early/mid 1990s HD (IBM format) disks are dead, they are hopeless. Most of the 720k QL ones still work fine.

Personally, I can't believe how well those little microdrive cartridges have held up, especially some of my older ones which saw constant use between 1984 and about 1992 when I _finally_ got a disk drive (the aforementioned 5 1/4" unit, which I still have somewhere, it worked last time I used it).

Dave, I'll drop you a line tomorrow or Tuesday, depending on whether my memory lets me down or not, re the material. Scalpel is at the ready!

Cheers,
Ade.


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