Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Utopian Galt
From : Warpslide
Date : Sun Apr 27 2025 07:31 am

On 26 Apr 2025, Utopian Galt said the following...

 UG> I hated floppy disks because they always failed on me. I had my bbs
 UG> backups on  them such as my user base or the wwiv 4.x code base i used
 UG> to customize my  system and they always corrupted :(

I had a similar experience with floppy disks.  Write something to it and store it away to access later only to get that horrible noise from the floppy drive when it tries to re-read a sector over & over.

I worked at a computer shop in high school and some of the first Windows 95 upgrades we received came on several 3.5" floppy disks.  I remember having two or three stacks of these disks ready as inevitably one of the disks would fail.  That didn't last too long as we got the CD version not too longer after
that.

A little floppy disk humour:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/mf2ag5/fridge_magnet/


Jay

.... Abort, Retry, Fail?

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