On or about 14 Jun 2001, Brian is alleged to have said: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Joshua Jore wrote: > > > On that note I recall hearing from our engineers (I work at a megaco that > > makes floppies) that the stray electrical trickle or so on a R/W head can > > and does attract dust and may pose issues to the data it is in immediate > > contact with. > > So, in essence, the whole idea of the floppy was flawed? :-) No, not at all. Anything electrical turns into a "dust magnet." Remember, floppies were never designed to *replace* hard drives. And the same issues occur on magnetic tape heads, they're just slightly less exposed on a cartridge drive, and most open reel data decks used to live in filtered air cooled computer rooms (not clean rooms, but better than office air.)