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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 29 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I cleaned the head of my 1540 floppy drive.

I also used flippies.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

I had a head cleaning floppy. Fucked up my drive real quick.