> That brings back memories. Back in the day, there was discussion of
> which *brand* of floppies to use, if you wanted to write something to
> floppy, put it on a shelf, and be able to read it again 5 years from
> now. At the time, the "gold standard" was Dysan. Floppy disk media
> varied in quality, and if you bought based on lowest price, you
> deserved what you got.
> Floppies are sill made and sold - see http://www.floppydisk.com/. I'd
> get new ones to try this on instead of trying to reuse ancient stuff
> lying around.
I went to that website, mainly for curiosity.
Now I don't know how or if the USB floppy drives work, whether some modern OSes
are temperamental in that regard.
For the internal drives, modern motherboards, as far as I can tell, no longer
have floppy headers, making it impossible to connect a regular floppy drive.
The modern "floppy" is a USB stick.
There are also external USB hard drives, and Micronet Fantom (micronet.com)
external hard drives with both USB 3 and eSATA, up to 8 TB, if my memory is
accurate.
But FreeDOS, and I believe all other DOSes, have trouble with multi-TB hard
drives, and I would want to partition with GPT, meaning not compatible with
FreeDOS or ReactOS.
My computer hardware no longer has any floppy capability.
Tom
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