Data on a 3.5 diskette

[Unknown]

I have no idea why you have such flawed thinking. Music media prior to CD's
was cassettes.
I have many cassettes purchased in 1984 thru 1986 in Japan. They all still
work (play)
I have floppies dating from 1994 during Windows 95 that still work.
Are you just hell bent on being negative??
I am NOT saying they are very reliable, should be used on anything of that
nature.
BUT, they are not as bad as you make them out to be.
Cars wear out. Does that mean I must take a bus?

 

[Unknown]

When a technology (such as cassette tapes) is superseded by a newer
technology (such as CD's) you have the knack of
being EXTREMELY negative of the older technology and preach how bad they
were even though billions of
cassettes and floppies were used and sold.
What on earth will you spout off when the internal combustion engine is
superseded by a newer technology?
Yet, you take the worst possible technology (registry cleaners) and praise
them. Pelosi. (BS).

 

[Terry R.]

The problem is from my point of view (and experience) is that floppies
are completely erratic as to when they DO fail. My point in starting
this was that there are far more reliable and cheaper methods available
to day for data storage. I wouldn't dream of using a floppy today and if
I had data on floppies I would transfer it to one of the far more robust
storage methods.

No arguments from anyone there, they are frail and they do fail,
sometimes they fail almost as soon as they come out of the box. We know
that they aren't the best storage media but Twayne's assertion that they
all fail in a year unless you do a Kabuki dance and refresh them is rubbish.

John[/QUOTE]

When they were $1 apiece, they had a "Lifetime" warranty. So they
"must" have been made better... ;-)




Terry R.

 

[Unknown]

Great logical thinking.

On 3/10/2010 4:08 AM On a whim, John John - MVP pounded out on the
keyboard


When they were $1 apiece, they had a "Lifetime" warranty. So they "must"
have been made better... ;-)




Terry R.

 

[Terry R.]

On 3/11/2010 9:10 AM On a whim, Unknown pounded out on the keyboard

Great logical thinking.

See the smiley? Know what it means?


Terry R.

 

[Unknown]

Do you know why they really got a bad reputation? Why they 'appeared' to
fail almost immediately?

 

[Bob I]

Humm, Media Descriptor Bit?

Do you know why they really got a bad reputation? Why they 'appeared' to
fail almost immediately?

 

[Unknown]

That is one reason but not the only.

Humm, Media Descriptor Bit?

 

[Bob I]

That was the major one, 720's were the other but not so big.

 

[Unknown]

The major one was a programming error.

That was the major one, 720's were the other but not so big.