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- From: unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Don't clean drives!! (was Re: Problems Detected with System 6)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.210938.10674@gallant.apple.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:09:38 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.165942.10473@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Organization: Apple
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- In article <1993Jan25.165942.10473@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Grover Thomas,
- grover@emunix.emich.edu writes:
- > Ack! Don't "clean" your 3.5" drives. They rarely ever need it, if
- > ever. Even cleaning them once a year is probably too much.
-
- 'if ever' is probably a bit much.. It's recommended to clean heads on
- cassette tape players, so why not on disk drives? Once a month
- surely seems like too much though.
-
- On the same subject, Seven Hills came out with a disk drive head
- cleaning disk and software.. It was in the paper yesterday in our weekly
- "computing" section. They have software for Macs and GSs. (GASP!
- The Apple II was actually mentioned in a general interest article!)
- --
- unknown@apple.com Apple II Forever
- unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu These opinions are mine, not Apple's.
-