Reply to post: There's always something you never considered

To have one floppy failure is unlucky. To have 20 implies evil magic or a very silly user

Andy A

There's always something you never considered

We had a report that a user of an Apricot PC (one of the first with 3.5" drives) was unable to insert a floppy into a drive. Our hearts sank, thinking we would lose one of our rare spare drives. The user had been carefully making backup copies of his data disks and labelling them - better than average practise.

Unfortunately he had failed to remove the older labels, and the disk was now too fat to fit through the slot.

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