[Coco] Reading floppies with CRC error?

[Nick Marentes]

Oh yes. I never said they were bad... back then.

It's now that they... and I'm mainly talking about the media here...are 
not so reliable anymore.

I ran alll my software development on cassette tape when I had my TRS-80 
Model 1. When I moved to the CoCo, I was determined never to touch tape 
again and bought a dual floppy drive. I was in heaven!

I still wouldn't mind the floppy but the media itself is what lets us 
down now.

Nick


On 20/08/2014 7:42 AM, Kandur wrote:
> Nick, you are talking about 'now' and the 'future',
> I agree with you 100%, but my probem is from the 'past'.
> In the good old days of the Coco-3's birth year, we had no
> SD memory cards, or DVDs, cheap HDs were were just a dream.
> We used, what we had, floppies. Interestingly, 24 out of 28
> floppies remained in excellent conditions, two had signs of wear
> and only one was bad. My guess is, that that one was an
> overused, worn out floppy when I made the archive.
> Shouldn't have used it, my fault.
> Anyway, I used to have a program, that rescued bad floppies.
> It just kept reading everything non stop, garbage and all.
> Later I had one like this to read bad CDs.
> This diskette had some Sculptor database and
> procedure files of my music collections' catalogs.
> Not terribly important, just somehow don't feel like
> writing the missing procedure sources again.
>
> Kandur
>