Re: Really Old (tm) floppies...

[dcross1@nospam.home.com (David Cross)]

In article <Pine.NEB.3.96.981108181828.231A-100000@rosv4119.student.uu.se>, 
rosv4119@student.uu.se says...

>I am digging through the storeroom at our local Uni Computerclub here in
>Uppsala, Sweden. We have a few AppleII's, and a *lot* of old floppies with
>various stuff on them..
>
>almost all of these floppies are strangely enough perfectly readable and
>unseable, so i am in the process of making images (dsk) of them for
>backing eveything up. My concern is this:
>
>These Very Old Floppies (VOF for short) seem to be oxidized or something
>similar, since the media surface is not at all shiny like new floppies,
>but rather dull brown and non-reflecting. some of them are unevenly
>stained on the media (i.e on the disk itself), like they have been exposed
>to moisture (not at all unlikely; they have been in a basement storage for
>years).

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You should throw out the old ones and use brand-new backup copies.

Sorry, but using old media in a disk drive on a regular basis just isn't a good 
idea. :P