Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : boraxman
From : neoshock
Date : Sun Apr 27 2025 11:12 pm

 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.

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

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

Lloyd (neoshock) sysop @ Classic Computing BBS
bbs.classiccomputing.net

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