[NCLUG] KRUD 7.2 Boot Failure

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake Sean Reifschneider:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:00:38PM -0700, Scott G. Brauer wrote:
> >My biggest problem was bad floppies.  I went through 27 floppies, both new 
> >and old, before I found one that would work.  I've never had so much 
> >trouble with floppies.
> 
> Yeah...  I actually remember a time when I used floppies for primary
> storage...  Have they gotten more unreliable, or is it just that I use them
> so rarely these days that I don't notice when a drive is bad?

 Uh, I still have that old distro of slackware on 3.5" floppies if anyone
needs. :-) I think it's propping up other stuff in a stuff box but it's
still around.

 I've seen trouble like this with floppies before. When I left Germany in
'93 I brought with me 50 or 60 of the little buggers and used them when I
had to. Mostly for shuttling stuff home from CSU (faster than my 14.4 modem
at the time). At some point a few years ago I pretty much determined that
the majority of them were bad as they couldn't be formatted error-free. Now
I just scrounge around at work if I need one.

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