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  • Re: Doppy Flisks (was Re: Packages With =?UTF-8?B?4oCcdDY04oCd?= OnThe Ends Of Their Names)

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Wed Apr 17 07:19:12 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:29:52 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    On 16/04/2024 14:39, Marco Moock wrote:

    I love playing around with such things, but I wouldn't like to have a
    production system relying on it.

    They were extremely reliable ...

    Floppies were not reliable. Prior to getting my first CD writer, I backed
    up my important programs onto two sets of floppies. Came time to move to
    CDs, I discovered read errors--on both copies of the same disk! Luckily
    they were in different files.

    When you bought some new software that came on floppy, the immediate wise thing to do was to make a working copy and use that. And keep the original away somewhere safe.
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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Wed Apr 17 14:32:35 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2024-04-17 09:19, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:29:52 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    On 16/04/2024 14:39, Marco Moock wrote:

    I love playing around with such things, but I wouldn't like to have a
    production system relying on it.

    They were extremely reliable ...

    Floppies were not reliable. Prior to getting my first CD writer, I backed
    up my important programs onto two sets of floppies. Came time to move to
    CDs, I discovered read errors--on both copies of the same disk! Luckily
    they were in different files.

    When you bought some new software that came on floppy, the immediate wise thing to do was to make a working copy and use that. And keep the original away somewhere safe.

    Floppies made in the 80's were quite reliable, they very seldom failed. Floppies made somewhere in the 90's, failed a lot.

    I don't know why.


    I had backup sets of a hundred floppies with only a single recoverable
    error (with pctools backup).
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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