Reliable 3.5" DSHD diskettes

[Joe R.]

At 10:12 AM 11/8/05 -0500, you wrote:
>Joe R. wrote:
>> At 10:45 PM 11/6/05 +0000, you wrote:
>> 
>>>>I've noticed that what passes for 3.5" blank media nowadays is downright
>>>
>>>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).
>>>
>>>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???
>
>Also, I know for a fact that there are HP-IB CD-ROM drives because I 
>have one.

   I have one too but it's not CD-R or CD-RW.  FWIW I've been lucky enough
to find several HP-IB drives that use Bernoulli disks, MO disks and other
rewriteable media. :-)

    Joe

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>Peace...  Sridhar
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