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

-=> neoshock wrote to boraxman <=-

 bo>  UG> I hated floppy disks because they always failed on me. I had my bbs
 bo>  UG> backups on them such as my user base or the wwiv 4.x code base i used
 bo>  UG> to customize my system and they always corrupted :(
 bo>
 bo> When was this?
 bo> I found floppies were pretty reliable in the early 90s and earlier.
 bo> By the mid 90s, they turned to crap.  By the late 90s, early 2000s, if
 bo> you bought a "new" box of floppies, they were duds.  360K disks I
 bo> found pretty solid.

 ne> Unlike other media like audio tape or VHS, it was quite important to
 ne> pick the right brand of floppy disks or even cd-r's. There were a few
 ne> crappy brands out there that could result in failure. I main stuck with
 ne> only a couple of brands. Verbatim or Sony for cd-r, or Verbatim and
 ne> Maxell for floppies.

 ne> Zip disks were a life saver for me before CD-R's, I can't recall ever
 ne> having an issue with any zip-disks.

Zip disks were either great, or crap.  I survived for a while, but eventually
my drive too succumbed to the "click of death". Shame, they were really good
back then.

 
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