10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
10:24 a.m.
On 3/10/2023 11:52 AM, rescue via cctalk wrote:
If properly care for and stored, I'd be willing to bet that the 5.25"
floppies will be working after the flash replacements suffer bit rot
and data loss from charge depletion .... though I might not be around
to see that be a big problem :-)
I have floppies, 5 1/4" and 8" , that have sat around my basement in
cardboard
boxes for over 40 year that are all perfectly readable. I expect to run
out of
hardware capable of reading them long before they become unreadable.
bill