Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Apr 27 2025 05:45 pm

  Re: Re: floppy disks
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Utopian Galt on Sun Apr 27 2025 09:11 am

 PF> I found an old floppy disk with my global war license key and Qedit
 PF> licensed for DOS a few years back. I borrowed a USB floppy and copied

I used QEdit a lot in the early-mid 90s; mainly due to my dad using it.  I never had a licensed version though (and I'm not sure he did either).

 PF> I had more CDs go bad than floppies, but I wasn't exactly buying top
 PF> quality CD blanks...   :(

I've only had one CD go bad, and it was a CD-RW.  I'd used it as a backup for some of my college work (for some reason I thought I'd burn an updated version of my college work on it some day). Just months later, I tried to copy it back to my computer and it was having a hard time copying from one spot on the disc. Apparently it started to go bad..  I found a program that would keep trying repeatedly to copy a file until it succeeded, and I tried that with my CD-RW disc. After a few hours, it finally was able to successfully copy everything from that disc (thankfully).  I never used any re-writeable optical discs again.

Nightfox
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