Floppy disks at 2021?!

[borissh1983 at gmail.com]

On Saturday, 25 December 2021 3:22:22 IST Steve Litt wrote:
> said on Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:13:54 +0200
> 
> >Until this thread I didn't even know there was such a thing as 8"
> >diskettes. My first computer was an Apple IIe with 5.25" diskettes
> >(from 1983). I used 3.5" diskettes too and disk on key but today I
> >hardly use even disk on keys, although I used one last week after more
> >than a year of not using it. And of course CDs I don't use any more.
> >My parents have stories of using punched cards when studying in the
> >Technion (around 1970). But I still use hard disks, and I assume that
> >everything we use today will be obsolete in the next 50 years or so.
> 
> And this is one of the greatest challenges to long term backup and
> archiving.
> 

working long term backup that you do not need to update is a myth, both hard drives and cds die with time ( I had seen it few years ago when I was updating my archives to a newer media types).
I had special db cases (bags?) and even then some of the cds had perished.