10 Nov
2001
10 Nov
'01
11:10 a.m.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Eric J. Korpela wrote:
Not really. Hardware tends to get abused more often at schools due to
student ignorance. Drive heads become dirtier quicker.
What media
were you using? Was it quality media or cheap crap you could
buy in bulk? What was your physical environment like? Clean and free of
dust and debris? How did you store your disks? In a temperature and
humidity that was amenable with diskettes, as suggested by the
manufacturer?
It was at a school, a generally clean and environmentally friendly area. Disks were from assorted manufacturers. I'd have
to go pull out some
disks to find out. The same disks were used in CP/M and TRS-80
machines and didn't have as many problems. Diskettes were generally
stored in plastic 10 disk cases.
"...didn't tend [to] have as many problems" is pretty subjective. If this
means that they too had problems then the evidence would point towards a
dirty environment.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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