Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!oxy!hammersslammers1 From: hammersslammers1@oxy.edu (David J. Harr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: it's the little things that annoy me Message-ID: <86733@tiger.oxy.edu> Date: 7 Apr 90 19:11:32 GMT References: <3416@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1990Apr6.141204.22579@eng.umd.edu> Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 Lines: 13 Matthew T. Russotto says in reference to someone not seeing any floppies die in his year as an SE owner: >A year isn't NEARLY long enough. After 5 years you will have had your >share. I have to disagree with this very strongly. I have lost an average of three to four disks a month since I bought my MacII back in '87. I have had Apple disks (seven out of the eight original system disks I had), Sony's, Kodaks, TDKs, generic Egghead software disks, whatever. This has taken place even with the five floppy drives I have had installed in my machine at various times. As far as I am concerned, floppies are Write-only memory and should never ever ever have any serious data entrusted to them. David