26 Sep
2008
26 Sep
'08
4:37 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:50:30AM +0200, Christian Corti wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
Funny that, I _did_ have a nice stack of floppies from BASF dying on me.
And I do remember them to be worse than others. Maybe that is why they
got out of the magnetic media market? *g*
Regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
Floppies and reliability is just a sad topic. Back
when floppies were
still an integral part of the network (think Sneakernet), one brand got
its brand name expanded to "Byte Abweisende SchutzFolie" (translated:
"Byte
rejecting protective sheet") because they were _that_ bad.
And this is an urban legend since all my BASF floppies are (still) good.
They weren't worse than floppies from any other brand. Anyways, they don't
produce any magnetic media since a couple of years any more.