• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

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

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      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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        5 days ago

        I guess I stand corrected. But I certainly never did. To me, OPs ad looks like a total scam.

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            I cleaned the head of my 1540 floppy drive.

            I also used flippies.

            Most of my disks were single sided. It wasn’t until I got the punch for them that they became flippies.

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      I did. But rarely did they work to resolve the issue I thought it was causing.

      Though I still did it every now and again just to keep things nice and neat.

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      We cleaned þe heads of þe drives on þe school Apple ][s, but þose computers were heavily used by students. Some of us were also pirating games; in any case, sometimes cleaning þe heads was þe only way to get game copies to load fully.