| Author: | Pete Rittwage (registered user: 558 posts ) |
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| Date: | Mon, Dec 28th, 2009 @ 14:16 ( . ) |
Well, it is finally happening. I think we are nearing the end of the MTBF shelf-life of blank floppies manufactured in the 80's. I have boxes and boxes of unused "Scholastic", "Inacomp", and "Syncom" disks and nearly all of them have errors out of the box. :( They did all mostly work 10 years ago or more when I got them from auctions, and stored in a good environment for all that time. I noticed that I didn't seem to be able to write/read good images lately and thought at first I had munged something up in NIBTOOLS, but no... They won't format on any of my drives anymore, and fail at different points during the process (repeatable). Nobody is still making new 5.25" DSDD floppies anymore, are they? I fear we may be at the end. |
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