9 Feb
2009
9 Feb
'09
2:22 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Jules Richardson wrote:
The question that popped into my head was "how
long will floppies last?" -
there's no point creating alignment disks if the existing media's all failed
and there's no new stock being produced. I'm not sure how much life floppies
have left in them - 10 years? 30? 100?
Just so long as I have READ capability until the last media is dead and
gone.
I think I'll miss the death-rattle of encountering
a bad disk block, or even
the grinding/squealing noise as the surface of a disk falls off and demolishes
the drive head. Any magical "solid state" replacement should really include
audio output and the ability to randomly lose bits of your data... :-)
Ah HA!
THAT is what is missing from simulation!