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  From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@steadycom.com.au>
  To  : Jake Hawkes <jake@eclectic.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:38:55 +1030

Re: Floppys (was SCO problems again)

I agree - floppies should not even be a "last resort". Maybe I'm just
unlucky, but generally in a box of 10 disks, one or more is bad to start
with, and the rest usually seem to fail to hold data for more than
rand()*42 minutes.

I made a boot disk at home the other day, and was booting off it quite a
few times. By about the 8th boot in an hour, it started reporting data
errors. ;P
Either my magnetic personality is acting up, or else floppies are just
an technological dinosaur that deserves to die. 

Multi-session cdroms are the way to go. ;)
You can boot 'em, you can store a lot more data on 'em, they've got a
decent transfer rate, and when you don't want them anymore, you can even
use them as a frisbee or placemat etc.

Toby

Jake Hawkes wrote:
> 
> ANNOUNCEMENT: THIS IS NOT A FLAME
> 
> :)
> 
> I've always found the concept of *backup-up* onto a floppy slightly
> amusing.
> 
> I trust floppys about as far as I can throw them, which is not ar
> considering they always do that funny flippy-around thing in the air....
>

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