1 Feb
2014
1 Feb
'14
1:25 p.m.
On 02/01/2014 12:44 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Years ago, I encountered an amusing oddity, . . .
trying to use "HD" media as "DD" (due to a purchasing agent sleeping
with
a supplier, and giving us Roytype [presumably HD] media, instead of the
Verbatin Datalife DD that we ordered), would sometimes seem to work, but
within minutes/hours/days, the recorded content (including formatting, of
course) was GONE.
Several years ago, I had the task of retrieving content from a few
hundred Kaypro 10 floppies. Things went swimmingly until I ran into a
stretch of 3M DSHD floppies. My heart sank as I inserted the first one
and tried to read it--and succeeded. The remainder of the "stretch" of
HD floppies all read fine--they hadn't been touched for at least 10 years.
Some days, you get lucky.
--Chuck