I have actually had a lot of experience with this. I would never consider
floppies as a save media, too many of them have failed on my.

Johannes

On 21.04.2004 16:48 Uhr, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote

> I've heard this said, but I started using floppies in 1980 (TRS-80 and
> Color Computer), and even those are still readable nearly a quarter-century
> later. A friend who still has a working 5-inch drive has been transferring
> my old articles with no trouble, so I know they're still good. My
> 10-year-old PC-based floppies are still fine; I have one machine with a
> legacy floppy drive still working, and I've been transferring material to
> CDR to consolidate it.
> 
> I've had worse luck with Zip disks (50% failure over time with these!),
> CDRs, and hard drives than I ever had with floppies.
> 
> What gave rise to the idea that floppies were unreliable? Is it just
> because they tended to be stored badly? Or was it a system-dependent
> recording method?

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