Re: Good source for "new" 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks?

[golfrock <rtspitz@gmail.com>]

I believe over the years the manufacturers, in order to boost profits,
have made the disks thinner and thinner thus lowering the
reliability.  Of course with the advent of new technologies, first the
zip disks and then flash media, there is no use for the floppy except
for us.

I just bought a copy of "The Manager" from ramito on eBay and just as
all the original disks I have from those days, they all are good.

I found a big bunch of LD 3 1/2 disks on eBay a couple of years ago.
I have just about used them all up by backing up all the software that
I have acquired.  I have found these to format fully and have not had
to throw any away.

I wouldn't use any new floppies for any thing.  I would only use HD
floppies from the late 80s if you could verify the manufacture date.

Robert