29 Apr
2010
29 Apr
'10
3:12 p.m.
On 29 Apr 2010 at 22:19, Andrew Burton wrote:
Perhaps someone (no I'm *not* volunteering!) should look in to
documenting how floppy discs are made? I have a general idea, but how
they actually make and coat the media should be preserved for future
generations now, before it gets forgotten. For example, how do they
attach the metal slider with that tiny spring inside? In 10 (or 20)
years that sort of information would probably be lost or very hard to
find.
I ascribe the decline in floppy media at least in part to a similar
decline in consumer video tape, mostly VHS. ISTR that 360K 5.25"
floppies use approximately the same coating formulation and thickness
as VHS tape. Instead of cutting the substrate into long strips, you
cut it into round "cookies'.
--Chuck