20 Jun
1998
20 Jun
'98
8:30 a.m.
Sorry about the white space, I'm using Lynx, as always...
I agree with that! I've taken two sets of disks for Mac System 7 from
a Mac Lab, and both had bad disks. OTOH, the 6.0.4 disks still work
fine, probably because of the lower density. Sometimes I wonder if
there's something wrong w/my drives, but they can read data written
by other drives...
a month later. And yes my drive heads are clean, and
the drive is set
up
as per the service manual.
Sometimes I wish I could pay more for a disk and get one that lasts. My
data is worth a lot more than $5 or whatever.
>
> New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and for what
system) did
> you guys carry around to start out with?
My
first exposure to storage was 5.25" disks in third grade for the
Apple ][. It was old then. We were being terrorized by a moron who
spent a month telling us to put disks into a sleeve. I wondered if
he knew to do anything else. BTW, can a disk be damaged if taken out
while it is being read from? That was a sin I had commited...
After that came : magnetic cards on an HP41CV, 5.25" floppies
(initially
on the school's RML380Z, then on my TRS-80), paper
tape (I got a
non-working ASR33 and repaired it), 8" floppies, 3" floppies, punched
cards, 3.5" floppies, hard disk packs, 9 track tapes, QIC tapes.
Of course many of those are used on more than 1 machine, and I'm only
listing the first time I used them.
-tony
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