From: Grant Taylor <cctalk at
gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net>
I wince at the idea of running with QIC tape. But my experience is with
QIC-80 tapes of the '90s which were so unreliable as to be in the same
category as AOL floppy disks during the late '90s around the transition
to CD-ROMs. As in I would trust an AOL floppy disk to better hold my
data for a week than I would a QIC-80 tape to hold data for a month,
much less a year. ...and I didn't even trust an AOL floppy to go from
computer to computer for 5 minutes. -- Talk about a race to the bottom
for quality.
I wish I'd kept some. I had some AOL CDs from slightly later that made decent
coasters for decades. Although I guess with the shutter, the floppy wouldn't really
have made a very good coaster.
Adam