| Author: | NiVEK (registered user: 5 posts ) |
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| Date: | Tue, Dec 29th, 2009 @ 13:50 ( . ) |
All the more reason to archive everything that comes your way! I haven't checked my discs recently but a couple of years ago most were not fully readable (including my carefully stored originals). I dunno, outliving my floppies just makes me feel old... ;-) Kevin. On 12/28/2009 @ 14:16, Pete Rittwage wrote :
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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