>It was an improvement over floppies that were notoriously unreliable and not very durable even in 3.5" form Sorry, but this is BS. Floppies were supremely re

>It was an improvement over floppies that were notoriously unreliable and not very durable even in 3.5" form Sorry, but this is BS. Floppies were supremely reliable, really to an amazing degree. That is, until sometime in the mid-1990s or later: at that point, the drives became cheaper and crappier, and the media quality went straight down the toilet. It was pretty sudden as I remember, and basically coincided with people moving to CD-Rs because floppies were no longer large enough for daily use. Ask your older friends or relatives if they had a lot of trouble with floppies back in the Apple ][ era, when that was the only disk drive on a computer and people routinely booted their computer with the same boot disk every day; floppies were quite reliable in those days.