Perfect vid. Still using floppies today. 👌

I voted for the Iron Filings, i reckon just one or two of those on the disk would destory both disk and drive 😄

I have a feeling, you are a Rick and Morty fan…

I guess H the Boing Ball Base because it oscillates.

Another mad experiment Rob. Again I am impressed by the gauss reader you created. Next we need to test hard drives!

Once more I admire your ruthlessly scientific approach to ridding the world of the scourge of floppy disks

I wonder what impact leaving disks on top of the CRT or beside desk speakers would have? I always got grief from my Dad about that.

Nice video. Really appreciate that you went above and beyond by adding a graphical bar chart to the arduino gauss output, keeping things visually appealing for us.

Thank you Rob excellent subject matter.

I'm told that the airport x-ray have been wiping drives for years. Any truth in that?

Often wondered about this and now we have a good basis with which to evaluate actual results. -Mark.

In the 1980's I worked in software support for a multi-national company and we used to make 2 copies of our diskettes then wrap them in tin foil when we flew. We were told that if our brief case was x-rayed it would damage the storage. We were never convinced this was true but we followed company practice because to be wrong and caught out would have meant our job. Of course our hand luggage was seldom checked in those days. I don't remember suffering any media damage from x-rays or magnetic interference specifically but we did occasionally suffer loss on one copy for an unspecified reason; hence the 2 copies.

We were told traveling on the London tube would cause floppy issues. Guess how we got to World of Amiga in the 90's!

Keeping my disk box on the top of my stereo speaker cabinets probably wasn't a good idea back in the day..... Great meeting you on Saturday BTW, Really enjoyed our chat.

“Project Mayhem” also used bulk erasers in the movie “Fight Club.” Looked like they were targeting a VHS rental shop.

But are they safe from floating Boing Ball ornaments on your desk???? 😂 You are the official mad scientist of the Amiga community! You rock Rob!

Well, I already know how easy it is to distort a CRT with an iPhone. MagSafe has its drawbacks!

When I worked in commercial radio many years ago, we had a 'bulk eraser' that would wipe NAB cartridges clean for new commercials or jingles. It was an aggressive beast that would buzz and vibrate while you used it for the few seconds it took to sweep the tape back and forth. I can remember turning up for work around 5am one morning to a horrible smell as someone had forgotten to turn the bulk eraser off the day before. It's a miracle that anyone within the Broad Street area in Birmingham didn't lose their magnetic media.

An Apple product that I’ve accidentally erased floppies with is a MacBook Pro. I set a floppy down on one of the palm rests and it was unreadable afterwards. There are powerful magnets near the edges of the palm rests that are part of the speakers!

Interesting test there, Thanks for doing it - I had a feeling the Fisk Tank Cleaner would do the most damage, as it was a larger magnet to begin with - I never really had any issues with disks when I was younger as I always used to put them somewhere safe Maybe had 1 or 2 max Amiga Floppy Disks go duff on me throughout the time I used them - Had PC Floppy Disks when I was on a computer training course, used ARJ compression software back then just so I could keep a backup of my data - used to take the Floppy Disks home with me, used to have over 10 at any one time, in a Disk Box - those were the days eh - when you needed tons of Floppies just to store the compressed data

Brilliant, thanks! All installed and up and running. I love hearing the floppy drive churning away again. Great work. Worth it!

I sold my mister fpga but this might pull me back in

Impressive stuff. The CD drive was a real game changer when they became a think. The sheer volume of stuff they put on all the magizine cover CDs were pretty great for starters

I'll donate a 5.25 1.2M floppy drive for you for your work. I currently have 4K good formatted cleaned (surface) inside out 360 floppies. a hand full of 720k 1.44 and no 1.2M disks all ready to be writing on

Maybe consider adding PC88/PC98 diskimages ?

I really enjoy your videos and energy Rob; Keep it up. Thanks for sharing the details of this neat card.

I never unsterstood why a joystick was the choice gaming back in the days where the gamepad is truly more comfortable, like the GX-4000 ones

I have a Grease Weasle 4.1 in a 3.5+5.25 3D printer elclosure mainly to write 360k apple disks and PC88/PC98 images back to floppy. I have over 4k 360k floppy disk enough like wallpaper for my whole house.Would need support for PC88/PC98 read write .fdi .d88 images

man i want that boingball great job as always!

THE battle tank get upgraded!

Deja vu!!! Still a great add on, giving so much extra to the Amiga 2000.

D-I-K-UH not D-I-K-EE...I'm guessing Fat Olga is Fat Agnus's sister 🙂

The thing I want to know Rob, is the sound effect for indicating components on the accelerator card the lemmings explode pop!!! 🤣 What is that AMIGA globe in the background above the disk drive? Cool!

The best way to test a FPU for overclocking is to use AIBB beach ball test. FPU's can appear to be working but crash in strange ways that make you think the problem is something else. Run the beach ball test and watch the ball being drawn, if the clock is too fast, the ball will only partially be drawn and the software will return to the result screen with crazily high results.

Great video, wonderful memories! 😍

Thank you Rob brings life back to the Amiga 2000. I will have to save my money. Cheers

It would've been good from a data archaeology perspective to have seen the contents of that drive. Thanks for trying

man thanks, buíding my own for sony ipela

Still amazed :) hope some day you will release this so we all can make some creative works :D

Bremse 👍🏻