27 Feb
2023
27 Feb
'23
7:05 p.m.
On 2/27/2023 12:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 2/27/23 09:30, Warner Losh wrote:
That's funny. I used lots of Elephant on my TRS-80's and never had a
problem.
Still have them and I can still read and write them without any problems.
The only funny stuff I ran into was with 8" disks and the Terak. We
were having
problems and talked to Terak about it and their solution was that we
should be
buying Terak Brand Disks. Yeah, right, like they ever actually made
disks....
bill
Prior to about 1984 or 85, the failure rate for
DD floppies for me was
high enough that I splurged for the QD. After 84 or 85, I never had any
problems
using DD media. I suspect that yields must have gotten better, but maybe I
just had bad luck prior to going to college...
There was a lot of junk in the
floppy arena in the early days. The
brands that vanished were numerous. Brown, Elephant...all terrible.