Thom Kouwenhoven wrote in a message to Greg Mayman:

 GM> But the modern disks seem to be a lot more reliable than the old
 GM> ones. I find I am having less failures with modern 1.44meg 3.5"
 GM> disks than I was having 10 years ago with 360k 5.25k floppies.

 TK> My 3.5" floppys from 5 years ago all have bad blocks and
 TK> formattingproblems. My 5.25" floppys from 25 years ago are still
 TK> OK.

I'll be that the stuff I have here on 8" disks will still be readable,
 should I care to make the attempt...    :-)

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