[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: [TRS80 Club] TRS-80 Bay Area Owner

[Neil Morrison]

It's a crap shoot. Depends on how they were stored - lying flat in stacks is
very bad. Many can be read, some can't. Also, some Coco disks need to be
backed up onto a disk formatted on the PC floppy drive, because Coco's used
too short of a timing so you often can't read sector 1 on every track.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "arno_puder" <arno at puder.org>

> I'm looking for a TRS-80 owner in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have a
> few old floppies I have a hard time reading with READDISK and I wanted
> to verify that those disks are still OK. Does anyone know what the
> chances are that floppies that have been sitting in a drawer for 20
> years are still readable?




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