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Article #988Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???
From: Lonnie McClure
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 00:00
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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. Not very ecologically sound. <grin> Since these floppies are probably okay for most uses, ever considered saving these in a box until you get a few and donating them to a local school, charity organization, or even fellow cash-strapped computer user? ========================= lmcclure1@mindspring.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public From: lmcclure@ibm.net (Lonnie McClure) Subject: Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days??? Date: 1998/06/09 Message-ID: <357ca569.11060527@news2.ibm.net> X-Deja-AN: 360889962 References: <6jfeqk$2na$1@news.ramhb.co.nz> <355b90ec.4077901@news.zeta.org.au> <355C6D41.7F86@ibm.net> <356449B0.167EB0E7@cs.man.ac.uk> X-Notice: should be reported to postmaster@ibm.net Reply-To: lmcclure@ibm.net X-Complaints-To: postmaster@ibm.net X-Trace: 9 Jun 1998 04:05:55 GMT, 129.37.225.252 Organization: IBM.NET Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,aus.computers.ibm-pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems