Re: [steem] Floppy disk question
- From: Amy Macdonald <amacdona@xxxxxxx>
- To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:19:22 -0600
I recently purchased a couple of boxes of the DD (double density) IBM compatible
floppies......I am in western Canada....
The High Density disks are bad - they deteriorate very quickly if you try to
reformat
them to DD and save your stuff on them - it is not even worth trying (experience
speaking) - unless you have a HD drive in the Atari....
The floppies deteriorate also, but I do not know how quickly (also from
experience) -
more like years though.....
Let me know oif I can help in any way.......
Amy.
Tony wrote:
> It's the floppies.. you really need to find low density disks, (
> which is hard these days ) or just live with the slow death of the
> HD disks..
>
> But if you keep copies on the HD of your pc...or on a cd.. its not
> that bad...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: steem-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:steem-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On
> > Behalf Of Sengan Baring-Gould
> > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:46 PM
> > To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [steem] Floppy disk question
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I bought a real atari, and a real monitor. I made disks of various
> Demos
> > using my PC using HD floppies with the hole masked out with masking
> > tape. However it seems that the disks I make with my PC are degrading
> > over time very quickly. I am not sure whether this is due to using the
> > HD disks or the drive is magnetized. Any advice of what to do?
> >
> > Sengan
> >
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