Subj : Re: Floppy disks
To   : Arelor
From : Bf2K+
Date : Tue Aug 22 2023 23:59:20

My own experience is that my old Atari 8-bit 5.25" disk fare much better
than the 1.2mb 5.25" PC floppies.  And the 3.5" are by far the worst
losing data while sitting on the shelf.
I stored some of my old Atari 8 floppies in a 140degF attic for a few
years and still only have had about a 1-2% failure rate.  Those old DSDD
disks were beasts!!! (I don't store them in the attic anymore...) :)

BTW, I have around 500 of those DSDD Atari disks here and can nearly read
them all... and nearly all were written in the 80's.

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