Floppy disks were incredibly frustrating which is kind of how I became obsessed with abandonware and trying to preserve old games before they were lost forever. I still scour the internet searching for disk images of some old games that apparently no one but be really cares about. I wish I'd kept better care of my old disks, and my dad used to work in a school computer lab, so I wish I'd tried to get some of the old software and computers he had since the schools probably just throw that stuff away when they replace it.
But even if you take excellent care of floppy disks, they could still go bad. It's one of the reasons I strongly favor abandonware.
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