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Article #158Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???
From: Keith R. Williams
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:00
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:08:51, Kevin J Dressel <dressel@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote: > This is exactly what I am presently doing, except that several of the floppies > I was going to back up have already gone bad. It really sucks to cause they > were store-bought games, etc. that I really can't replace without buying them > again. (King's Quest 6 Disk2 is one I really need!) I feel your pain! ;-) Have your tried contacting the authors? I've found that about half my diskettes that have been stored for over six months are faulty. It's just not a reasonable media for storage anymore, if it ever was. BTW, I tried to read a few six month old TR1 tapes a few nights ago too. They're no better than floppys. ---- Keith R. Williams krw@ibm.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,f0cdfaa7f521fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public From: krw@ibm.net (Keith R. Williams) Subject: Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days??? Date: 1998/06/11 Message-ID: <pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-zuUCPIknf0Ez@localhost> X-Deja-AN: 361553232 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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> <357DD32F.B4C42B2A@aol.com> <pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-VuluZNYt3Q0g@localhost> <357EA181.3922A162@ecn.purdue.edu> X-Notice: should be reported to postmaster@ibm.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: krw@ibm.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Complaints-To: postmaster@ibm.net X-Trace: 11 Jun 1998 01:53:00 GMT, 32.100.110.52 Organization: IBM.NET Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,alt.comp.hardware,aus.computers.ibm-pc