Cleaning up

[jbailey]

I just threw out a 720k floppy disk this evening. While I don't know for this one in particular, but I remember that the old 5 1/4" Single sided, single density floppies used to have a lifetime warranty. I remember wondering at the ripe of age of 6 or whatever I was whether or not bringing the thing in and saying "It's dead" would get them to tell me that clearly the lifetime had passed.

Especially now - Who knows what happened to Memorex? (Wikipedia tells me it got bought and that they still sell media) I'm sure their customer service department would love to get a call about an SSSD floppy being dead. I probably have one in one of these boxes, I'm such a packrat.

Comments

[northernflights.livejournal.com]

More to the point, who has the equipment to *prove* that the SSSD floppy is dead? What's the test? Can't format it on an Atari 800 or Apple ][ or 4.77MHz XT?

[northernflights.livejournal.com]

flashback: 5.25" floppies sold under the name "Elephant Memory Systems" with the "never forgets" tagline.