Re: The use and value of floppies today

["golfrock" <rtspitz@gmail.com>]

I have noticed new floppies are so flimsy that most of the time you get
"Can't format" because of some unknown error.  I made a quad boot
machine that has two 3 1/2 floppies and installed DOS 6, Win 95, Win 98
and Win XP.  In XP, if I get the floppy error, I just reboot to DOS and
format the disk.  Most of the time DOS formats it fine.

Old disks, such as the DDs that we use with our IIGS' seem to be much
more reliable.  Most of the disks I have purchased from EBay auctions
all work just fine.  I even found some new DDs and bought a hundred of
them.  They have all formatted 100%.  Try that with any box of new HD
disks.

I think the manufactures have made them thinner and thinner over the
years.  Now, with the advent of CDrs and flash drives, floppies are
going the way of the 8 track and cassette tapes.

The PS/2 plugs and LPT1 parrallel ports are also going away.  Soon
there will only be USB, Network, Firewire and video ports.  The more
video ports the better.  ;)