19 Aug
2007
19 Aug
'07
2:14 p.m.
Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:>
The sad fact is that most diskettes
manufactured in the last decade
or so are pretty miserable. Awhile back, I
purchased a few hundred
Imation "made in USA" DSHDs. Thus far, the
results have been mixed.
One odd thing is that the boxes state "Lifetime > Warranty, see inside
for details". Well, there's nothing inside...
I used to buy Imation disks for use on my Amiga's (when they were working). After I
realised how crap they were (various failures) and how poorly made they were (simply by
write-protecting the disks I would break the glue bond between the casing and a visable
gap would appear on the underside). I bought 30 disks (3 boxes of 10) before switching to
Verbatim disks - a much higher quality casing and no errors at all on the 40 odd disks I
got before my Amiga's went down last year.
I believe there is there a way to read Amiga floppy disks on a PC/laptop, but it was on
backtoroots.org which has gone :(
Does anyone have the documentation for it? I really would like to continue with a project
I started last year which is on some of my floppies. I could start again, but that would
mean 100's of hours of work down the tube :(
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk