On Friday, 19 June 2015 11:15:43 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Charles Hope wrote:
In article ,
rick wrote:
On 14/06/2015 12:21, Jim White wrote:
In message
rick wrote:

I have a single 3.5" FD that was authored on a BBC compact.

It contains a few text files I would like to get off the disk .........
anybody have one of these pieces of history that still work?

Try asking (nicely) in comp.sys.acorn.misc



I'll do that

I have a RISC PC and the floppy drive still works. Just tried.

It was interesting others saying the floppies may have deteriorated. I
tried some of my very first ones with dates from the early 90s and they
all still worked.

Old cassettes still work ok, even the earliest ones, where ok is as good as they ever did. The pads can deteriorate, the tape is still ok for playback, but less so for recording.


NT