8 Oct
2005
8 Oct
'05
6:31 p.m.
Subject: RE: 8" floppy system needed to recover old game data
From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Allison wrote:
I have. It's not common and some vendors were more prone to it and
humidity is a big factor. The earlier quality stuff as I said before
didn't do it. Bit I do have some crap Nashua stuff from around 84ish
that was known for it.
Allison
For 8" stuff the prognosis is not so bad.
However the media is so old that
may be more of a problem with oxide shedding.
I haven't yet seen a floppy disk (and I have some probably as old as 30
years by now) that have shed oxide.