[Coco] 30 years...time flies

[Dave Philipsen]

Well, I'm adding a few more floppies to my list of hopefuls.  As soon as 
I get a system set up with a floppy drive I hope to read these as well.

http://www.retr09.com/images/OS9-68K-installs.jpg

http://www.retr09.com/images/OS9-68K-BASIC.jpg

Dave


On 3/22/2017 6:32 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
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> From: Coco [coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] on behalf of Bill Loguidice [bill at armchairarcade.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:16 PM
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> 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
>