Csonicgo

If you don't know, I'm a collector of old computer shit. I have an old Yamaha Midi Keyboard that has its own OS and sound chip inside- with a small boot disk. I immediately made images and backups of the original and used copies. Good thing I did. Because today, when booting, I heard a very bad "scratch" sound. to my horror, something from the inside of the floppy disk had gotten into the fabric and scratched the soft readable goodness off a section of the disk-- So much that I can see through it.


The problem is this: this is a brand new floppy disk, and with all my workings with computers, it seems that floppy disks are getting shittier and shittier as time goes by. not in age, but in performance with NEW floppy disks-this one lasted maybe a month before it died, while old floppies from the apple //e era still work. What the hell?

On another note, CD-Rs are also getting shittier. the labels come off easily, some never burn correctly, and one Memorex brand CD-R failed to work in all of my CD Burners. Funny, I used to equate Memorex with quality VHS Cassettes. Why does Removable storage in 2008 have to suck so bad?