kony (and other):

Points well made, and taken. I think more than a few of us have a
computer museum. I won't bore you with the sad tale of shipping off
(giving away) two pallets of Apple ][ gear. But DOS lives on, and I
still do my GL on it using Infostar.

But the point here you are making is to get rid of floppies in the
system. I'm doing spring housecleaning, and doing just that -- but
have considerably more than a dozen or two lying around. And I do use
them -- memtest86, for instance, when the CD doesn't work or isn't
installed.

FWIW, I've been using a floppy with winnt.sif on it for an unattended
install of Windows XP for a while now, which obviates the requirement
to burn a refreshed boot CD every time I make a change to the boot
process or driver loading. A floppy for each machine, easily
modified, is easier to keep track of than the CDs (at the moment).

So I cede to anyone who says floppies are losers. I just want to find
out if there are any current tests out there of what, if any, are any
good any more.

-- Roy

P.S.: I have a couple of Shugart 5 1/4 inch 720KB quad density drive
still available, in the unlikely event anybody is anxious to offload
to another media their Fastback backups they made to this media. It's
one of the projects in my extensive (and growing) backlog.