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? -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
