Floppy disk sizes ( was Re: Compaq Portable III fails POST? )

[Tony Duell]

> 
> On Wednesday 30 August 2006 04:17 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> > But then, given the quality of the blank media produced over the last 5
> > years, it probably doesn't matter anyway.
> 
> I'll say!  I've never had as much trouble with 5.25" and 8" as I've had with 
> 3.5" in recent years.  Not just the media,  but the drives,  too.

You are not alone. I think I stated once before that I can remember 
paying \pounds 3.00 for a single 5.25" floppy disk. My TRS-80 model 1 
stored 88K on said disk. But those 88K are still readable.

Now I get get 5 1.44M disks for a single pound. It's rare that the data 
is readable a month later.

Personally, I'd rather pay more for my disks and have the data last. My 
data is worth a lot more than the cost of the media.

Anmd don't get me started on drives. I normallly stick an alignemnt disk 
in new floppy drives, just to check, and I've had far too many that are 
_way_ off in recent years. Again, they are simply too cheap.

-tony