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> From: John Chin <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Technical info on floppies?
> Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 11:39 AM
>
> At 06:47 AM 5/6/1998 Jan Wilson wrote:
> >
> >>On 6 May 98, at 20:51, our friend [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >>
> >> I have lived for a decade and a half in Micronesia, on tropically
humid and
> >> hot, and dusty islands.  During these years, I have often wondered how
best
> >> to take care of floppies.
> >
> There must be a brand whose media is more resistant to
> the topical environment. Perhaps diskettes made to military spec.
>
When I worked in Florida, the diskettes the Air Force supplied us with
failed more often than name-brand diskettes such as 3-M and Maxell and too
often could not be read out of the box and could not even be re-formatted.
I think they just went with the cheapest diskettes available.