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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
In actual fact, I suspect the disk would still work. It tends to take a more powerful magnetic field to scramble one than the sort produced by a refrigerator magnet, especially since the magnet is over the center of the diskette where there won't be any data stored to scramble.
Still a bad idea, but not necessarily deadly... 
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Dennis |
I don't agree, there will be dataloss for sure. Way back I used to trade Sierre adventures with some of my friends (I know, I know) and after a fresh copy run I biked home. I safely put the disks on my luggage carrier at the back of my bike under some suspenders. As it was dark, I had the lights on. Not the battery fed LED light versions, but the old version with a dynamo. When I came home, the disks were useless. The small magnetic field from the wire underneath the luggage carrier due to the small power stream through it to feed the light was enough to destroy the disks... I guess the distance between the disks and the wire was about 10-15 cm. That was the last time I thought about safety first.
