[Coco] 30 years...time flies

[Dave Philipsen]

Bit rot with EPROMs? I'll have to hear the story on that one! 😂

Dave

> On Mar 22, 2017, at 6:32 AM, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Coco [coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] on behalf of Bill Loguidice [bill at armchairarcade.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:16 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 30 years...time flies
> 
> I second that. Almost all of my original floppies for various systems from
> 30+ years ago are still readable and I've done nothing special to store
> them. Considering all of the doom and gloom predictions about bit rot and
> even other things like internal chips degrading within a few decades, I
> think overall those of us still into this type of vintage technology have
> made out all right. About the only consistent degradations I'd say are to
> the yellowing of light colored plastics and capacitors drying out.
> 
> ____________________________________
> 
> Well, I have seen bitrot.  More in EPROMs than floppies, though.  Among floppies
> it is HD 5.25's that seem to go bad the most.  I have also seen 8" shed their oxide
> (but only Tandy brabded ones!!)  But most 8" and 5.25" just seem to last.  I am
> currently making copies of all my old TRS-80 Model 3 floppies and all of them so
> far are fine.  Of course, all my COCO disks are newer and work fine.
> 
> bill
> 
> -- 
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco