A very good evening to you Greg

On 22 Oct 03 08:33 you wrote something about *VEHICLE LED'S*...

 TK>> I have the experience that the 720k floppy's are a bit more
 TK>> reliable than the 1.44MB type.

 GM> Yes, increasing the data density always make for lower
 GM> reliability, all other things being equal.

Quad erat demonstrandum. <=)

 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.

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

I wonder if my reasonbly new 3.5" floppydrive could be the problem.

Greetingzetcetera, Thom


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