<html><head></head><body>I also pulled a lot dumped floppy drives apart from middle 80's to middle 90's and also noticed that general construction of the floppy drives was getting flimsier and flimsier. I suspect that the demise of the floppy was hastened as much by 'cheaper' hardware as much as lower quality media. <div class="gmail_quote">On 29 July 2015 5:59:45 pm AEST, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre class="k9mail">On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:56:15 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Yes :-) Floppies are slow and fragile. Just buy yourself a couple of USB sticks. </blockquote> I suspect USB sticks are less reliable than floppy disks. I still own a C64 with 5 1/4" DD and an Atari ST with 3,5" DD floppy disks and an around 40 MiB SCSI hard disk drive. They are much more than 20 years, perhaps 30 years old and were much used for music studio work. </pre></blockquote></div> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>