Modern floppy disk question...

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> It also wouldn't explain why we have 300GB hard drives today that work
> just as reliably if not more so than 10MB drives of 20 years ago.

When fixed rotating magnetic memory occupies the same
industrial/economic niche as floppies, it will be just as crappy.
Remember, radio tubes went through the same thing. Filamentary
lightbulbs are similar now, Sylvania is about the only
manufacturer of them domesically (US) and they suck.