[Coco] Sigh of relief, refresh your floppies!

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 26 March 2010, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>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.
>
The slowest my latest drive can go on a cd is 16x..  My std burn speed.

>james

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