[Coco] Second Floppy

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

When were the tapes written?

Ten years ago or so and all tapes will soon be unreadable.

Just like floppies and Hard disks, all magnetic media gets bit rot in time.

Take two magnets and watch them snap together or separate depending on which 
ends are pushed together.

Then understand that the North magnetic bits and the South magnetic bits can 
move on tapes, floppies and hard disks. And they do!

That's why all tapes, floppies and hard disks need to be written to CD or 
DVD NOW!

It may already be too late for much of what we have.

Tapes can be rewritten, floppies formatted and rewritten. Hard Drives, low 
level formatted and rewritten.

But do it NOW or lose them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rot

CD and DVD also have problems, but they may last longer.

http://www.docucrunch.com/bit-rot-the-new-problem-threatening-companies-archives

SHF



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chad H" <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Second Floppy


...
 I don't know if its my CCR-81, or if it's the
> tapes, but more and more often I'm getting load errors.
...
>
> - Chad