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

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 26 Dec 2017, Allen Huffman wrote:

> On Dec 26, 2017, at 9:49 PM, EDDY SZCZERBINSKI <dhaulagiri at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> A friend of mine is selling some.
>> He 's in Quebec city like me.
>> You want to contact him ?
>
> 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. :(

Depends on the brand.  I have 35 year old 3M diskettes that are still 
perfectly fine.

And, have yet to lose a byte from any of my 8" diskettes (have hundreds of 
them from CP/M days).



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