I've found it varies widely upon the floppy used. The cheap ones used by the previous owners of some systems I work with usually have very poor integrity. On the other hand, the good quality ones used by software publishers in the 80's to ship their applications still seem to work well.
On 10/23/2015 8:57 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> What I mean is that if your computer is OLDER than 386 >> then it does not make much sense to expect CD/DVD at >> all, so for such computers, a floppy distro is better. > Reading about a floppy distro raises one concern in my mind: reliability and > shelf life of floppies. > > In later years, I could write only a small minority of 3.5" floppies; ability > to read outlasted the ability to write. > > I also noticed that 5.25" floppies appeared to have much better shelf life > than 3.5" floppies. > > I wouldn't have been able to install FreeDOS from floppies because of > inability to find sufficient good floppies. > > FreeDOS outperformed Linux for handling floppies, and Linux did better than > FreeBSD or NetBSD. > > How is the experience of other users with old floppies? > > Tom > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
