On 3/28/23 18:06, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > At Comdex and West Coast Computer Faire, I used an advertising slogan of > "save your data from extinction". In the booth, we had some inflatable > dinosaurs, including a T. Rex taking a bite out of an 8" Verbatim disk. > Some kid came up and told my assistant, "That's not real!" > Bob replied, "Well, of course not, they won't let us bring live > dinosaurs into the exhibt hall." The kid responded, "not that, stupid. > There's no such thing as a disk like that." > Bob was unable to get the kid to believe that 8" disks had once existed.
The shipment that was being returned via Fedex, was, in fact 70 8 inch diskettes, ca. 1983--all read just fine. I guess that's a concern for our current removable media, be it Blu-ray DVD, USB pen drive, microSD card, or cloud. I wonder how much of that will still be accessible after 40 years. Or if it will matter... --Chuck
