[Coco] Second Floppy

[Chad H]

The tapes are written and verified immediately....somtimes with errors

"Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com> wrote:

>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
>
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