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On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:54:32 +0000
george <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello george,
> BTW, I find it very difficult to get floppies to work now. Even
> formatting and writing to newish disks. Well OK, they must be 10
> years old. Maybe the ferrous material really does deteriorate.
It does. And "newer" floppies seem to deteriorate more rapidly than
"old" ones. Maybe it's to do with the price dropping so low, that
quality had to suffer, or profits would have been lost.
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