Hard disagree, peoples homework missing was a daily occurrence and frustration. Drives being out of alignment and incompatible with other drives common. Yes,

Hard disagree, peoples homework missing was a daily occurrence and frustration. Drives being out of alignment and incompatible with other drives common. Yes, floppys can work really, really well. But I haven't encountered anything since that wasn't orders of magnitude better in this department. Unfortunately we had to wait until usb-drives to become ubiquitous before we had a reliable way to transfer files between random computers.