Re: Who still uses floppies these days?

[adric22@yahoo.com]

I still have 5.25" floppy disks from 24 years ago that still read fine.
 But I have lots of 1.44MB floppies that I wrote to a few weeks ago and
no longer read correctly.

CD's aren't that much better.  I have plenty of CDs that I have written
to, read from, stored away, and then a year later they won't read
anymore.  DVDs are just as bad if not worse.  I would definatly say
media today has lower standards.  Most people don't ever really think
about how long that data is going to be stored there.  By the time they
find out it won't read anymore it is too late to use a different
medium.  Currently, I'm storing all of my valuable data on DVD-RAM.  It
actually has a longer durability (assuming you don't erase it by
accident) than a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM.