On 11/05/2017 05:18 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , T writes:
On 11/05/2017 12:22 AM, Andy wrote:
They work fine Ed i have one on my new system reads and writes to the
disk's
just fine


Be careful with floppy disks.Â* It has been a long
time since the media was reliable.Â* Get your stuff
off and backup up in several locations: hard drive,
USB stick, etc..

It hasn't suddenly become unreliable; if you write something to a
reasonably little-used and recently formatted floppy now, it will remain
readable for as long as it ever did. But, certainly, how long that is is
generally less than the time between now and when floppies were common,
i. e. material written to them then has passed its reliable-until date.

I was talking about going through box after box of shrink wrapped
floppies to find a good one. And wen I finally found one, it went to
hell in a week. All my old ones worked fine. My point
was that he may not be able to find new reliable floppy disks