Re: Remember floppy disks?
Some batches or brands of disks were decidedly dodgy. Can just take one bad disk to ruin someone's day.
There was also the problem of some people just not looking after them. There were occasions I'd been called to help with a problem floppy disk (3 1/2 or 5 1/4), only to find it covered in score marks like an ice-skater had gone round them in circles, obvious signs of grit or debris on the surface that had been dragged around by the head. Where's your backup disk? ... next to their ash-tray with a coffee cup perched on the top of it. Sigh.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
