Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Apr 29 2025 02:05 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: floppy disks
 Ni>   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

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

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

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

I once bought a spindle of cheap, no name disks.  They were duds,
didn't last.

I always purchased Verbatim, and on occasion TDK.  I have disks now
20+ years old that are still find.  Only once, with one spindle of
Verbatim disks, did I get a manufacturing defect, that resulted in a
few failing after a year or two.

Apart from that, which clearly was a manufacturing defect, CD-Rs and
DVD-Rs have been rock-solid.

 
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