Re: tapes best for backup?
On 01/05/08 15:45, David Brodbeck wrote:
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My personal experience suggests the old 720K floppies were a lot more
reliable than the 1.44 megabyte ones.
I don't remember seeing many 720K drives or disks. Had a couple in
a cheap NEC laptop from 1987, though.
Also, I think both the media and
the drives got less reliable as they got cheaper.
Ain't that the truth...
5.25" 1.2 megabyte floppies were the worst, I think. There were serious
interchange problems between 1.2 megabyte and 360K drives.
That was true in the early (1984-1986) days, but after that the
interop problems were resolved.
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