5 / Care and Maintenance
Care
of
Diskettes
In
general, handle diskettes carefully, using the same precautions you use
with
tape
cassettes and high-fidelity records. A small indentation, dust
particle,
or
scratch can render all
or
part
of
a diskette
unreadable-
permanently.
•
Keep
the diskette in its storage envelope wheneverit
is
not in one
of
the
drives.
•
Do
not
place a diskette in the drive while you are turning the system on
or
off.
•
Keep
diskettes away from magnetic fields (transformers,
AC
motors,
magnets, TVs, radios, etc.). Strong magnetic fields will erasedata stored
on
a diskette.
•
Handle
diskettes by the jacket only.
Do
not touch any
of
the exposed
surfaces.
Don't try to wipe or clean the diskette surface; it scratches
easily.
•
Keep
diskettes
out
of
direct sunlight and away from heat.
• Avoid contamination
of
diskettes with cigarette ashes, dust
or
other
particles.
•
Do
not
write directly on the diskette jacketwith a hard pointdevice such
as a ball point
pen
or
lead pencil; use a felt tip pen only.
• Store diskettesin a vertical file folder
on
a shelfwhere they are protected
from pressure to their sides (just
as
phono records are stored).
•
In
very dusty environments, you may need to provide filtered air to the
Computer
room.
Tips on Labeling Diskettes
Each
diskette has a permanent label on its jacket. This label
is
for "vital
statistics" that will never change.
For
example, to help keep track
of
diskettes, it's a good idea to assign a unique number to each diskette. Write
such a
number
on
thepermanentlabel. You might also putyour name on the
diskette,
and
record the date when the diskette was first put into use.
Remember,
use only a felt tip pen for marking.
This
"permanent"
label
is
not a good place to record the contents
of
the
diskette - since that will change, and you
don't
want to be erasing
or
scratching
out
information from this label.
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