Floppy Disk

[Mir96TA]

I just notice most of my Floppy Drive 1.44 are gone BAD
100 % 720 K over formated to 1.00 is GONE BAD
DANG it.
Those were very expensive at time I bought by saving buck here and buck there.

 

[Blintok]

i still have some old 1.44 laying around in a box. no idea if they even work. no way to even test them as i havent had a floppy drive in years. Can you even buy new 1.44 drives these days?

 

[Ken g6]

I actually bought my Dad a new USB floppy drive last Christmas. So they do exist.

 

[alkemyst]

You can get them for $5-10 usually. I like Sony or Teac.

The best way to do it is just get a USB one and use it when you need it. Many laptop drives (Dell esp) have the mini-USB port on them.

 

[Binky]

Tragedy strikes again. How's your 8-track player holding up?

 

[SMOGZINN]

Tragedy strikes again. How's your 8-track player holding up?

Oh no! Quick, check the Betamax tapes!

 

[Slugbait]

My vinyl collection still outputs audio whew!

 

[ericloewe]

Floppies age very badly. A few years ago, I went through all the floppies I could find. About 10% were still readable (barely, with lots of drive noise), but the ones that mattered (Space Quest) weren't.

 

[ret]

Floppy disks are probably of the few things that have been replaced with more durable substitutes during the years. Pretty much everything nowadays is made to "break" faster than before.

I also have a dozen of floppy disks somewhere but luckily I do not have anything I need on them.

 

[gevorg]

Heh, never judge a thread by it's title, thought it was another resurrect...

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Heh, never judge a thread by it's title, thought it was another resurrect...

Me too.

My dad has a bunch of IBM branded floppies

 

[Mir96TA]

Tragedy strikes again. How's your 8-track player holding up?

Dont have that
I have a Cassette player

Oh no! Quick, check the Betamax tapes!

I always had VHS! (with no Colour Gaurd)
Betamax Too expensive

 

[stahlhart]

Floppies age very badly. A few years ago, I went through all the floppies I could find. About 10% were still readable (barely, with lots of drive noise), but the ones that mattered (Space Quest) weren't.

It must be a more significant issue for 3-1/2" media/drives, or mabye just the storage environment. I have 5-1/4" disks for my C-64 that I wrote 25 years ago that still read perfectly in 25-year-old 1541s.