Subj : Re: Floppy Disks are overrated but cool
To   : Exodus
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 25 2024 01:00 pm

  Re: Re: Floppy Disks are overrated but cool
  By: Exodus to Utopian Galt on Thu Apr 25 2024 03:56 pm

 UG>> Even 25 years ago, I was scared crapless of my floppies failing. Many a
 UG>> BB
 UG>> backup got corrupted.

 Ex> That's why I bought a cd burner when I first saw them ... best $600 I
 Ex> spent, and $20 to 5 discs.

I've always seen CD-Rs and floppy disks a bit differently, since a CD-R can only be burned once.  I've only tried using a re-writeable CD (CD-RW) once, and the data started to became corrupt after only a month or two, so I never trusted CD-RWs again.

Nightfox
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