>> HDs were once of questionably reliability, but floppies are so 
>> hopelessly unreliable it's not even worth thinking about!
> 
> That (HD's unreliability) is what RAID is for.

Yeah, but I mean I can remember being warned not to move a computer 
while it's turned on for fear of causing a head crash. Now they put them 
in PORTABLE MP3 PLAYERS! (I must admit, I feel happier with the 
solid-state ones...)

>> I mean, forget for a moment the fact that editing a Word document 
>> stored on a floppy is 97% guaranteed to result in file corruption... 
> 
> I don't recall so, but if you'll take the floppy out before closing the 
> document (and won't put it back in quickly enough), you'll have 100% 
> sure corruption.

Yeah, that too.

But according to the Word MVP site, it's a very bad idea to edit files 
on a flopy. Copy them to the HD, edit them, save, close, then copy back 
to floppy. That's the recommendation anyway... [This probably only 
applies to new versions of Word. Older ones were less accident-prone.]

>> A new document for each page?
> 
> No, a new page for each document, ie. 5 letters on a floppy means a 
> 5-page document.

Gah. I typed that the wrong way round... although thinking about it, 
what I actually typed would be really weird too!

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