On Jan 5, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:46:11AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Interestingly enough, I can still use the IBM floppies that an old version of OS/2 came on in 1988. I've had new floppies fail but not those old IBM ones. Go figure.My wife keeps insisting that my Windows95 on those IBM floppies are still good. Let me give it a try. They are from 1990.
My personal experience suggests the old 720K floppies were a lot more reliable than the 1.44 megabyte ones. Also, I think both the media and the drives got less reliable as they got cheaper.
5.25" 1.2 megabyte floppies were the worst, I think. There were serious interchange problems between 1.2 megabyte and 360K drives.