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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!geac!zooid!vid
- From: David Mason <vid@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: Environment for floppies/FD drive
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:42:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.054213.24216@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <1992Dec28.231235.12685@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
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- loc@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Leigh Clayton) writes:
- > I don't mind so much losing a few boxes of diskettes (although they do add up
- >eventually), but I'm considering a DAT drive and I would be disappointed indeed
- >to drop $2K only to discover that my media weren't lasting for some reason. I
- >have seen very old mainframe hypertape read just fine, but admittedly they were
- >kept in an airconditioned vault.
- >
-
- I see this too. Backups that I made a year ago on floppy diskette seem to be
- unreadable now. Is diskette storage really this unreliable? Can I expect the
- same thing of the tape backups that I have made?
-
- My disks aren't in a basement, and they (for the most part) are stored in
- their sleeves in a normal disk case. Aside from the ones that are chewed on by
- cats or run over by roller-chairs.. :)
-
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