Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Utopian Galt
From : boraxman
Date : Sun Apr 27 2025 19:04:55

-=> Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

 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 :(


When was this?

I found floppies were pretty reliable in the early 90s and earlier.
By the mid 90s, they turned to crap.  By the late 90s, early 2000s, if
you bought a "new" box of floppies, they were duds.  360K disks I
found pretty solid.

I have 720K disks which were formatted to 1.44M disks, that are 10x
more reliable than the "new" disks made in the 90s.
 
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