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Hey, what if ya have to clean those darn floppy drive heads too often? Well, here's a solution:
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lol I had many computers in the 80s. Nobody was fucking cleaning drive heads, far as I remember.
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.
I guess I stand corrected. But I certainly never did. To me, OPs ad looks like a total scam.
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.
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.
I had a head cleaning floppy. Fucked up my drive real quick.
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.