Tips for cleaning a little bit of dirt from this diskette?
Posted by segasaturn97@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Posted by segasaturn97@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 14 comments
sillygoose1274@reddit
“A little bit of dirt” THAT AINT A LITTLE THAT’S A LOT!
Use compressed air on a flat surface
vintagecomputernerd@reddit
Crack open the case, and rinse the inner layer with distilled water, and put it in a new case.
Water could be substituted with IPA. Maybe a final methanol rinse, to prevent water streaks - but only if you know what the lethal dose of methanol is
peterdeg@reddit
Back in the day (late 80's), I used to take out the actual disk, wash it under the kitchen tap, and put it in a head cleaner disk case. Students just did not look after them.
Best I ever did was recover a disk that had been left on a car dashboard in summer. It was melted into all sorts of weirdness. The actual disk was ok.
MikeTheNight94@reddit
I’ve actually had to restore dirty and warped disks. First thing to do is carefully extract that actual medium from the disk housing and clean it really well with water only. Pat dry and let it air dry for several hours. If it’s gritty dirt you have to soak it and spray off as much as possible first. Have a sacrificial disk ready to transplant the clean medium into. I cut mine open a certain way so you can carefully swap the disc out and tape it closed. This actually worked for a very impossible to get software package for some obscure apple 2 accessory
segasaturn97@reddit (OP)
Wow! What accessory?
I need to fix a fault in my //e, and then I have a couple odd cards I need to look into. The Mountain Computer Supertalker and the Ufonic Voice System. For the latter of the two, I have two diskettes with registration and instructions as well as three external speaker boxes.
MikeTheNight94@reddit
I don’t recall what the company was, but it’s some sort of sensor interface. Think it came with the a thermal probe and has 2 slots for interface expansion. Box says it came from ucla. I actually need to sell it tbh. No use for it but I got the software for it to work
ZaitsXL@reddit
I think it's dead, that part in opening for head will not be readable after cleaning
Xenolog1@reddit
Dirt is good to train the immune system. Leave it there, then you don’t need an antivirus program anymore.
Stunning-Produce8581@reddit
That’s a good one xD
Ibif2s@reddit
It actually should be like that. Its some old copy protection scheme.
segasaturn97@reddit (OP)
Interesting - do you know the protection scheme and how to crack it? I want to make a duplicate of this and stick it in my friends drive
headshottrev@reddit
just blow on it looks fine
Mairon121@reddit
I thought it was a block of cement at first.
segasaturn97@reddit (OP)
Less useful than that at this point :-(