Re: My old floppy disks are decaying! Help!

[Tom Zuchowski <71214.1670@CompuServe.COM>]

Actually, any magnetic media tends to go random over time.  Tapes 
are even worse, because they experience print-through, as well.  
We have thousands of NASA data tapes from probe missions that no 
one has ever looked at, and odds are that they are already 
unrecoverable.

I recently went through my entire 5.25 collection, sorting, 
culling, and collecting into SHK backups, and I found about a 
half-dozen bad ones.  I don't smoke, and all of my disks are 
stored in sleeves in disk boxes.

TomZ