[toddz]

Likewise, I waited too long to rescue my 80's era diskettes. Wish I'd had that article to hand...thx for posting it.

[WalterBright]

I had about a dozen 8" floppy disks sitting in a box since about 1982. About 2 years ago, I needed to get a file off of them. I have a friend with a machine that would read them, and they all read perfectly.

I think in the early days of floppies the quality of the media and the drives was much better.