[Coco] Sigh of relief, refresh your floppies!

[Aaron Wolfe]

In the words of Linus Torvalds:

"Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest
of the world mirror it"

-Aaron


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Stephen H. Fischer
<SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I learned long ago to write at the slowest speed offered and do not use
> CD-RW.  DVD-RW is better. Have not tried BlueRay yet.
>
> Multiple CD-R copies of course. But they need only last for a few years now.
> Do not store in a room with bulls also.
>
> SHF
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <jdaggett at gate.net>
> To: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>; "CoCoList for Color
> Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 3:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Sigh of relief, refresh your floppies!
>
>
>> On 26 Mar 2010 at 17:24, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen H. Fischer"
>>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I just got done reading ~ 200 floppies using OS9 and Retrieve, only one
>>> > disk
>>> > had a problem. They were written ~ 2001 when I made 3.5" copies of all
>>> > > the
>>> > 5-1/4" disks. A very good move. Now to burn them to CD where they will
>>> > > be
>>> > safe.
>>>
>>> ===================================
>>>
>>> As long as you understand that CDs and DVDs are not permanent either.
>>>
>>> Bruce W.
>>>
>>
>> I was reading an article where the speed of the write to a CD candetermine
>> longevity. It
>> seems that the 48X write speed are not very good for long term readablity.
>>
>> james
>
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