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Article #965Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???
From: jlfuller
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:00
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In our application, some staff still prefer to use a floppy as primary storage for small files. Some have had very good luck while I would never trust a floppy to keep sensitive data over anything but short time spans. My experience goes back over ten years. I have had many corrupted floppy disks. -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public From: jlfuller@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days??? Date: 1998/07/12 Message-ID: <6oahjl$nmu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 370714505 References: <6jfeqk$2na$1@news.ramhb.co.nz> <355b90ec.4077901@news.zeta.org.au> <355C6D41.7F86@ibm.net> <356449B0.167EB0E7@cs.man.ac.uk> <357ca569.11060527@news2.ibm.net> <6lpl6t$2cm@borg.svpal.org> <pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-dB3RVsWBWSdL@localhost> <35814138.1422738@news.zeta.org.au> <6lrmrr$548@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> <358315ed.98422390@news1.Radix.Net> Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Jul 12 14:35:33 1998 GMT Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,aus.computers.ibm-pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; MSN 2.5; Windows 95)