From: *@eli.users.panix.com   
      
   In comp.misc, Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   > Eli the Bearded  <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:   
   >> Definitely. Better than CDs because you could just wipe and reuse them.   
   > Except that they were the worst quality floppies and they failed after   
   > a while when you did that.  I spent some interesting times recovering   
   > data for a project that used them.   
      
   I did have the good sense to only use them as scratch disks, mostly for   
   sneaker-net file transfer.   
      
   Elijah   
   ------   
   certainly had non-zero failure rates   
      
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