5.25 Vs 3.5 [Was: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???]

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From: Ian Staples
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:00

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Alecto <alecto@goulburn.net.au> writes:

>The trouble is that thay have stoped making quality 3.5" disks nowdays
>as the pricepoint of them in the market is too low for quality.
>If you want to use floppys for long term storage then 1.2m 5.25" disks
>are the best bet.

While I don't have a direct comparison of 5.25 versus 3.5, I can
confirm that the old 5.25" models were pretty good.  About 6 months
ago I copied files from about a dozen Wabash disks (as sold by the
then Micro Educational, I think they called themselves) which had
been used to transfer the files from the PDP-10 at JCU in Sep 1989.
All files copied perfectly, without a single "stutter" from XCOPY. :-)

Cheers,  Ian S.

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From: staplei@planet.ari.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian Staples)
Subject: 5.25 Vs 3.5 [Was: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???]
Date: 1998/06/18
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