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Offline kedawa

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Re: Winter disks, Summer disks
« on: February 17, 2013, 06:05:24 AM »
Floppies don't seem to follow the rules.
When I got back into using Amigas a few years ago, I bought some NOS DD floppies, since that's what everyone recommends.  About 7/10 wouldn't even format.  These were brand new discs, still sealed, that had been on a surplus store shelf for 20 years.
A few months ago, I found a bunch of PC HD floppies in an e-waste bin, and almost every single one works perfectly on my Amiga.  Every disk that managed to format properly has been completely error free.