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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by dan_hawkins on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:07AM (#24037942)
~90% of my 5.25" floppies written between 1992 and 1995 are readable (verified 2 years ago.) As for my CD-R collection from 1999-2005 ~50% got problems reading everything from it.
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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by mixmastamyk on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:29PM (#24044720)
I tried my CDR collection from the late 90's last year. Everything worked perfectly. However I destroyed a number of the obsolete ones.
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Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac by dan_hawkins on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @10:16AM (#24050193)
Well a lot of my CD-Rs were the cheapest ones possible - a lot of them using infamous organic acid based substrate, very popular with fungi ;)
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