On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Eric J. Korpela wrote:
> > What media were you using? Was it quality media or cheap crap you could
> > buy in bulk? What was your physical environment like? Clean and free of
> > dust and debris? How did you store your disks? In a temperature and
> > humidity that was amenable with diskettes, as suggested by the
> > manufacturer?
>
> It was at a school, a generally clean and environmentally friendly area.
Not really. Hardware tends to get abused more often at schools due to
student ignorance. Drive heads become dirtier quicker.
> Disks were from assorted manufacturers. I'd have to go pull out some
> disks to find out. The same disks were used in CP/M and TRS-80
> machines and didn't have as many problems. Diskettes were generally
> stored in plastic 10 disk cases.
"...didn't tend [to] have as many problems" is pretty subjective. If this
means that they too had problems then the evidence would point towards a
dirty environment.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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