Comments on: Another plea for floppy archives! https://virtuallyfun.com/2012/03/13/another-plea-for-floppy-archives/ Fun with Virtualization Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Frank https://virtuallyfun.com/2012/03/13/another-plea-for-floppy-archives/comment-page-1/#comment-9423 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:18:02 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=1784#comment-9423 Seriously, I just pulled up some new 1.44mbs I formatted a year ago and they failed! To be fair, sometimes they could possibly read but never will because you formatted on a drive that head its heads out of alignment.

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]]> By: David Simmons https://virtuallyfun.com/2012/03/13/another-plea-for-floppy-archives/comment-page-1/#comment-9229 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:59:41 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=1784#comment-9229 About 4 years ago, I found the time to go through about 1/2 of my C64 floppies from the 80’s, and migrate their data into my “periodically transfer to fresh media” archive set. Although there were a lot of errors, I was surprised at how many disks still read fine. I guess I need to get on the ball about archiving the other 1/2!

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