Subj : Re: Floppy disks
To   : Bf2K+
From : Commodore Clifford
Date : Wed Aug 23 2023 19:58:52

On 22 Aug 23  23:59:20 Bf2K+ wrote...

BB> My own experience is that my old Atari 8-bit 5.25" disk fare much
BB> better than the 1.2mb 5.25" PC floppies.  And the 3.5" are by far the
BB> worst losing data while sitting on the shelf. I stored some of my old
BB> Atari 8 floppies in a 140degF attic for a few years and still only
BB> have had about a 1-2% failure rate.  Those old DSDD disks were
BB> beasts!!! (I don't store them in the attic anymore...) :)
BB> 
BB> BTW, I have around 500 of those DSDD Atari disks here and can nearly
BB> read them all... and nearly all were written in the 80's.

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

I've noticed that too.  Many of the ST disks are going/gone (not all the
commercial ones, but my own).  Fortunately, most of my stuff that I care
about was saved on hard drives and my main ones still work today.

But the Atari 8-bit 5.25's were in pretty good shape except for a few
that were some of my literally oldest (like the couple disks I bought
with my "allowance" when I was just a kid).  Trying to recover the
world's greatest programming ventures from those!


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