30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
3:07 p.m.
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 04:17 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
You are not alone. I think I stated once before that I can remember
paying \pounds 3.00 for a single 5.25" floppy disk. My TRS-80 model 1
stored 88K on said disk. But those 88K are still readable.
Now I get get 5 1.44M disks for a single pound. It's rare that the data
is readable a month later.
Personally, I'd rather pay more for my disks and have the data last. My
data is worth a lot more than the cost of the media.
Anmd don't get me started on drives. I normallly stick an alignemnt disk
in new floppy drives, just to check, and I've had far too many that are
_way_ off in recent years. Again, they are simply too cheap.
-tony
But then, given the quality of the blank media
produced over the last 5
years, it probably doesn't matter anyway.
I'll say! I've never had as much trouble with 5.25" and 8" as I've
had with
3.5" in recent years. Not just the media, but the drives, too.