Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Pearson Pete@LLL-MFE From: "Pearson Pete"@LLL-MFE Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Floppy storage: steel vs plastic. Message-ID: <7416@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 14:23:27 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7416 Posted: Wed Jan 16 14:23:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 03:16:16 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 7 If you're worried about steel becoming magnetized, then think about soft iron, which cannot. Actually, magnetic fields drop off so fast with distance that you probably don't really have to worry about stray magnetic fields. (To the extent that a magnetic field looks like a dipole field, it must fall off like 1/r**3.) For peace of mind, try waving a magnet around an expendable floppy. You'll be impressed at how close you have to get before you start seeing errors.