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Hey, what if ya have to clean those darn floppy drive heads too often? Well, here's a solution: (feddit.org)
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[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago

lol I had many computers in the 80s. Nobody was fucking cleaning drive heads, far as I remember.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Um, I did. Had a cassette on my VIC-20 and used a tape cleaner. Later I used 3.5 floppy cleaners when reads would get funky. But huge caveat, I smoked indoors in the 90s, and that was hell on my PCs.

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