14 Oct
2022
14 Oct
'22
10:57 p.m.
I’ve used a floppies a lot over the years and only real failures i’ve seen are with the
case or jacket being cracked or otherwise broken torn. Had a lot of 3 1/2 floppies that
wouldn’t write but a reformat fixed that.
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On Oct 14, 2022, at 15:26, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
In my experience, floppy disks prove to be very resilient with the specific
exception of late 1990s 3.5" floppies, which tend to fail readily.
Sellam
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:24 PM John Herron via cctalk <
> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> Just curious but how does one predict if floppys will be good when buying
> old media? Is it just a crap shoop at this point?
>