I’ve used a floppies a lot over the years and only real failures i’ve seen are with the case or jacket being cracked or otherwise broken torn. Had a lot of 3 1/2 floppies that wouldn’t write but a reformat fixed that.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 14, 2022, at 15:26, Sellam Abraham via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > In my experience, floppy disks prove to be very resilient with the specific > exception of late 1990s 3.5" floppies, which tend to fail readily. > > Sellam > >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:24 PM John Herron via cctalk < >> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> Just curious but how does one predict if floppys will be good when buying >> old media? Is it just a crap shoop at this point? >>
