[geeks] How low can you go...

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:28:23PM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> And, most important: I did get around booting from floppies. Every time
> I have to boot from flopies it ends in a nightmare. I think I haven't
> seen an error free 3.5" floppy for nearly a decade.

I still use a lot of floppies. It's part of my old Mac software archive
project. You can still buy new 1.4m disks, and despite what people say,
the will work (at least for a few days) as 720k/800k disks if  you
cover the hole.

What I did do, which has really saved me was to buy several floppy drive
cleaning disks. I wet it lightlty with 95% grain alcohol (it's cheaper
than 70% isopropil here), and clean the drives.

Geoff.
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