🚀 go-pugleaf

Charles Mosher wrote:

> Lonnie McClure (lmcclure@ibm.net) wrote:
> : On Thu, 21 May 1998 16:35:12 +0100 Andrew Smallshaw
> : <smallsa7@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> : >I also bin my floppies when I've re-written over them two or three
> : >times.
>
> With all you folks having trouble with floppies and tapes being corrupted,
> _where_ are you storing them?  I initially format all floppies to make
> sure they have _no_ bad sectors, since diskcopy just writes over bad
> sectors anyway, and destroy all floppies with bad sectors, and rarely have
> any data loss thereafter.  I hesitate to say never, but I can not recall
> _any_ instance of lost data due to anything other than cockpit error on my
> part.
>
> We're probably talking about perhaps half a thousand floppies here.
>
> Are you perchance storing them near your monitor, where the degausing on
> power up can also degauss your floppies and tapes?
>
> All the usual cautions also apply: keep them away from your telephone,
> stereo speakers, and anything else with magnets in them or with external
> magnetic fields when operated.

i don't understand the thread, either.  I've use Maxell ever since they came
out and I've never had a failure with any media size.

But let me tell y'all that I just happened to have a machine ready for setup
when I remembered this thread, so - I dragged out an 8" NEC FD and plugged it
in, installed PC-DOS 7.0 and PCTools 7.4, and set drvparams in config.sys.  I
configured PCBACKUP and, without a problem, restored AutoCad v1.4 and the
Golden Gate Bridge drawing it came with.  This turned into an all-niter
because, though the restore went without complaint, my drivers/video were way
beyond Acads expectations.  When I finally found an old VGA card that Acad
knew about - the Bridge came up, I regend it and thought: how quaint.

So, those disks were not under any special care for the past 20 years and they
were just fine.

>
>
> Good luck.
>
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