| ▲ | addaon 6 hours ago | |
I have some 3.5" floppy disks in the bench seat of the electric organ that came with my house that are at least that old... the three I tried worked without issue. Small sample size, but it suggests a half-life way over a couple of years; I can't imagine this system has unusually robust error correction or anything. | ||
| ▲ | ____tom____ 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I recently tried to copy over an old box of floppies from the 80s and 90s. I'd say 80-90% success rate. Floppies aren't a bad technology, but they do have limits. I doubt that SD cards will last that long. | ||