6 Sep
2007
6 Sep
'07
8:09 p.m.
--- Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140155187682
How to make an unreliable medium even LESS reliable.
Hehe - I remember seeing those advertised in computer
magazines way back when. I used to do the same thing
sometimes, only I used a drill. Either that, or a
paper cutter could cut the entire corner off the disk.
Funny thing was, disks modified in this fashion never
gave me any problems. I know that the media is
different, and that it should have been unreliable,
but, back then anyway, it worked just fine. I even
remember reading an old disk as recently as last year,
and it still worked.
I never had the problem with floppies ten years ago
that I have now with brand new disks. I think that at
some point, the quality of the media just went through
the floor.
-Ian