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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Dead floppies
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.195932.2176@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 90 19:59:32 GMT
References: <10547@ilog.UUCP> <1990Dec21.161038.11141@sarah.albany.edu>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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derek@leah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man) writes:
>In article <10547@ilog.UUCP> skyvingt@ilog.UUCP (William Skyvington) writes:
>>The rate at which my floppies have been dying over the last year,
>>since I've been working on several IIcx machines, is outrageous.
>     I too have been encountering FAR more unreadable floppies over
>the past year or so, both 800K and 1.4MB.  I can state this objectively

Me too.  We hardly use floppies tho, and it's mostly the IIci's (and their
superdrives).

>>Frankly, I've reached the point at which I've lost all confidence in
>>Macintosh floppies.
>     Ditto here.  I bring graphic work and documentation between home

Not quite, but getting there.


p.s.  any solution(s)?

-- 
Brian Aslakson

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