8" floppy system needed to recover old game data

[Scott Stevens]

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Allison wrote:
> 
> > For 8" stuff the prognosis is not so bad.  However the media is so
> > old that may be more of a problem with oxide shedding.
> 
> I haven't yet seen a floppy disk (and I have some probably as old as
> 30 years by now) that have shed oxide.
> 

Somebody probably already threw away the ones from low-quality vendors
that shed oxide.  (they have had 30 years to do so)

Seriously, this is a phenomenon that leads to the 'they sure don't make
things the way they used to' opinion.  The old stuff that was junk
doesn't survive (i.e. all the Sanyo 555 PC's and awful middle-era
Macintoshes get shredded,) so we all get the impression that the good
stuff that has 'survived' is representative of everything made 'back
then.'

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