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Last year I also did some attic cleaning and found boxes of all my disks and some CD's from before I moved away to college. I found floppy disks with files as

Last year I also did some attic cleaning and found boxes of all my disks and some CD's from before I moved away to college. I found floppy disks with files as old as about 1993, including one with some risque' saved pictures from p2p IRC file transfers, some chat logs, and whole program folders I had saved (because at that time 'backing up' things to me meant literally copying the program files folder from one computer to another). Very surprisingly, every file I tried from every floppy loaded perfectly. Nothing says blast from the computing past like finding 16-color palette dithered GIFs of porn you hid as a 15 year old by saving them with obscured file extensions on boring beige floppy disks labeled 'WIN32 DLLs'.

chrononaut 3y ago
> Very surprisingly, every file I tried from every floppy loaded perfectly. I have noticed this as well. Floppies from the early 80s and 90s seemingly reading data perfectly fine. In fact, I can't recall the last time I remember running into a corrupted floppy. I feel like my floppies have lasted longer than my CDs. The top coating on a lot of my CD-Rs from the very late 90s and early 2000s chip / wear off very easily today.
- rootw0rm 3y ago
  I was only able to install Lands of Lore (1993) a few times before one of the disks crapped out on me. It's the one devastating floppy failure that I remember =)
  - BizarroLand 3y ago
    I remember that game. It had a bug that required a patch to be able to complete, but that information wasn't really available to us so we hit a wall about 95% into the game and we couldn't complete it. Even re-played the game from scratch in case we had missed something and hit the exact same wall again. Years later I found the game on a ROM site and the patch disk was included there, but I had lost my save files and did not want to put the effort in to complete the game over from scratch.

chrononaut 3y ago

> Very surprisingly, every file I tried from every floppy loaded perfectly. I have noticed this as well. Floppies from the early 80s and 90s seemingly reading data perfectly fine. In fact, I can't recall the last time I remember running into a corrupted floppy. I feel like my floppies have lasted longer than my CDs. The top coating on a lot of my CD-Rs from the very late 90s and early 2000s chip / wear off very easily today.

rootw0rm 3y ago
I was only able to install Lands of Lore (1993) a few times before one of the disks crapped out on me. It's the one devastating floppy failure that I remember =)
- BizarroLand 3y ago
  I remember that game. It had a bug that required a patch to be able to complete, but that information wasn't really available to us so we hit a wall about 95% into the game and we couldn't complete it. Even re-played the game from scratch in case we had missed something and hit the exact same wall again. Years later I found the game on a ROM site and the patch disk was included there, but I had lost my save files and did not want to put the effort in to complete the game over from scratch.