4 Nov
2010
4 Nov
'10
3:26 p.m.
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Andrew Burton wrote:
Floppies aren't so fragile... someone (on this
list?) did some tests with
floppies (5" ones?) a year or so back - in the freezer, buried in the ground
for a while, etc. - and nearly all of them worked again afterwards (the
actual media had to be placed in a brand new floppy case though).
Floppies used for testing always hold up just fine.
It is only when you have excess reliance on one that it will fail.