I Ran a 5.25” Floppy Disk With NO Case in an IBM XT Drive.
This is how data recovery of spilled liquid on floppies were done back in the day.
I cut open a 5.25” floppy disk and inserted only the magnetic media into an original IBM XT floppy drive to see if it would still spin and read.
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No outer shell.
No protection.
Just raw magnetic film spinning while the read/write head moves back and forth.
This is how early 1980s PC storage actually worked — thin plastic coated in iron oxide, spinning at 300 RPM inside a full-height drive.
Vintage computing was beautifully mechanical.
Would you have tried this in 1983?
Tech Details:
• 5.25” floppy disk
• IBM XT era drive
• Single-sided magnetic media
• 300 RPM spin speed
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