Subj : Re: Floppy disks
To   : Spectre
From : bbsing
Date : Wed Aug 23 2023 13:50:16

-=> Spectre wrote to bbsing <=-


 Sp> There's a few things that spell the end for floppies... Mold for one,
 Sp> who'd had thought that'd be a thing.. what are they feeding on?  If you
 Sp> left the mold long enough presumably it'd eat something out of the
 Sp> surface.  But sans that mold either needs to be cleaned off the surface
 Sp> carefully or the drive head will eat it, become filthy and won't read.

I think there is a species of mold that can eat anything that exists in the
kinetic world. 

I really like the 3.5 inch floppy as a storage medium, over all the time of my
computing life, that has been my favorite. I like the sound the drive makes
engaging the disc, the head sound moving across the medium, and the form factor
and transportability. 

I hope SSD is the answer for lifetime storage. 

 Sp> The more likely problem, like HD's will be bit rot... eventually losing
 Sp> random magnetic data.

 Sp> Just for giggles, 8bit shack is sourcing floppys from somewhere.
 Sp> They're still putting out A2 software.

What is A2 software? 
 
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