On Feb 10, 2004, at 9:33 AM, David P wrote:
About short life expectancy of floppy disks... I'm curious as to how 3 1/2 inch floppies are a lot more short lived than their 5 1/4 inch counterparts... i mean, i've got an old BBC computer using 5 1/4 floppies and i didn't exactly treat them properly (ie leavin them lying around out of their sleeves, and they work fine - and some of them are nearly 16 years old. what went wrong there i wonder?
They got to be more and more cheaply made. I have old 3 1/2" floppy disks > 10 years old that still work fine, but in the last several years, as the price of floppies has bottomed out, the manufacturers have had to cut costs; about the only cost left to cut was materials. I've seen brand new floppies where the coating on the disk was just falling off.
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