On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 03:03:52PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
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> > Ironically, floppies made longer ago seem to last longer.
> > Floppies (mostly 3.5") seem to have been made more cheaply / lest robust.
>
> Part of it is: Greater data density was achieved
Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
> Ironically, floppies made longer ago seem to last longer.
> Floppies (mostly 3.5") seem to have been made more cheaply / lest robust.
Part of it is: Greater data density was achieved through use of finer
magnetic particles. Those inherently are more lik
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 01:47:04PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. But never mind, it works with some diskettes but
> not others. Evidently some floppies do not last 27 years... who knew. :)
Ironically, floppies made longer ago seem to last longer.
Floppies (mostly 3.5") seem to ha
Thanks for the reply. But never mind, it works with some diskettes but
not others. Evidently some floppies do not last 27 years... who knew. :)
Rod
On 08/02/2017 01:43 PM, John Reed wrote:
> I was able to use a floppy drive on Ubuntu 14 last year. Don't know if
> that helps.
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> John
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> On
I was able to use a floppy drive on Ubuntu 14 last year. Don't know if that
helps.
John
On Aug 2, 2017 12:53 PM, "Rod Roark" wrote:
Wondering if anyone has any experience/insight with this. I have some
old (1989-91-ish) 3.5" floppy disks that I want to archive the data
from, and a TEAC 1.44 M
Wondering if anyone has any experience/insight with this. I have some
old (1989-91-ish) 3.5" floppy disks that I want to archive the data
from, and a TEAC 1.44 MB drive (actually 2 of them). The PC is a
homebrew with a Gigabyte H55-USB3 mainboard and older Intel i3 CPU. The
floppy interface is ena
