Reliable 3.5" DSHD diskettes

[Joe R.]

At 10:45 PM 11/6/05 +0000, you wrote:
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>> I've noticed that what passes for 3.5" blank media nowadays is downright
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>This is a common moan here. I've noticed it too -- as I am fond of 
>pointing out, about 20 years ago I bought some 5.25" disks for my TRS-80 
>model 1. THose disks cost me (then) \pounds 3.00 each, and my Model 1 
>stored 88K on them (single sided, 35 cylinders, single density).
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>Thing is, those disks are still readable. I wish I could pay that sort of 
>price _now_ for a 3.5" disk and get something that I could read back 
>again in <n> years time. My data is worth a lot more than that.
>
>(Oh and don't tell me to use CD-Rs or DVDs, or whatever. I've yet to find 
>such devives with an HPIL interface (for example)).

   Hmmm. I have a couple of HP-IB MO drives and a HP-IL to HP-IB converter.
I wonder???

    Joe

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>-tony
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