[Coco] Are 5 1/4" floppies still made???

Peter Cetinski pete at pski.net
Tue Dec 26 23:23:43 EST 2017



> On Dec 26, 2017, at 10:52 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> No thanks :) I was wondering if new media was still being made. I had dozens of my old 80s disks that were just flaking off the diskette as I was trying to read them for archiving. I can’t imagine old magnetic media is going to be that reliable, even still sealed in a box. I have 8mm video tapes from 1999 that are almost unreadable now, too. :(
> 

FWIW, I've purchased quite a few NOS 8” floppy boxes in the past few years and have found that almost all of the quality brands in intact sealed boxes are still in very good condition. 


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