I’ve used a floppies a lot over the years and only real failures i’ve seen are
with the case or jacket being cracked or otherwise broken torn. Had a lot of 3
1/2 floppies that wouldn’t write but a reformat fixed that.
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> On Oct 14, 2022, at 15:26, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
In my experience, floppy disks prove to be very resilient with the specific
exception of late 1990s 3.5" floppies, which tend to fail readily.
Sellam
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:24 PM John Herron via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Just curious but how does one predict if floppys will be
Just curious but how does one predict if floppys will be good when buying
old media? Is it just a crap shoop at this point?
How much?
On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:38 PM Kevin Parker via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> A little while ago I bought some new ones from https://www.floppydisk.com/
>
> I have no relationship to floppydisk.com
>
>
> Kevin Parker
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> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Begley via
Tom Persky at https://www.floppydisk.com/ sells all types of FDs, albeit
well above the AOL price :-)
Interesting article about this last man standing in the business:
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-f
