Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business
by myth_drannon on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:09AM
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Once my family drove to visit my cousins. I brought a newly bought box of floppies just in case they had some interesting things to copy from... and forgot it in the car with summer heatwave outside. It was a very painful lesson, so many badblocks.
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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business
by bornfreddy on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:29PM
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I didn't know the temperature mattered?
Otherwise with new floppies I always reformatted and checked for bad blocks first. Some of the series were very bad quality.
Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business
by myth_drannon on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:54PM
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nah, some just melted. It was on the front seat with no shadow in Israeli +40C degrees heat.