Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Interestingly, all the floppies I own have gradually stopped working. 
> Almost every single one of them now regularly has bad sectors or 
> suddenly shows up as "not formatted". I guess because they're so old now...

  I think that's because they are a magnetic storage media, which
degrades over time. Optical media has the advantage that it doesn't
degrade. If it only was as protected as the 3.5-inch floppies, they
would be almost perfect...

> As I said note... What the **** do they make the actual disk out of? 
> Because man, it's unbreakable! They should make shopping bags out of 
> that stuff!!

  They aren't unbreakable. At least DVD-R's aren't. Bend them enough and
they will shatter into a hundred tiny (razor-sharp) pieces.

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                                                          - Warp

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