Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???

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From: Todd Stanley
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 00:00

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Geez, I basically will use them till they die - even if they do have 50k
in bad clusters.  However, if it is really important, I do use a fresh
floppy.



Lonnie McClure 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.
> 
> 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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From: Todd Stanley <toddestan@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???
Date: 1998/06/09
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