4 May
2005
4 May
'05
6:31 a.m.
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
I've always put this down to the vast increase of track density on the
media. Of course, I could be full of fluff, but it would certainly explain
why I can read my 30 year old 8" floppies (Which I could almost use a
microscope to pick out the 0s and 1s) and why 1.44MB (or
greater?) 3.5" disks are such a disappointment.
I also apply this logic to why the latest 300GB Maxtor disk lasts six to
eight months before dying, as opposed to any number of <100MB disks that
cannot be killed. This, however, might be a false excuse - but I like to
use it anyway. (Of course, sometimes I prefer to just say Maxtor's suck
and dream of the day I can afford an all SCSI disk system)
Anyways. My potential delusion unleashed.
JP
Anyone know why modern floppy disks are such
total junk? They seem to
often develop problems after only one or two writes - whereas back in
the day they were always pretty reliable.
That's a really good question. I'd like an answer myself. I routinely
read disks that are 20-25-30 years old with few problems, yet I can't walk
10 feet to another computer and recover a file I just copied onto a modern
3.5" disk without the disk going bad. Go figure.