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Yeah. During the lockdown I was stuck by "chance" alone at my parents' old house, the one were I grew up. I found my old C128 (which I'd use in C64 mode all the time) and cleaned it, cleaned its disk drive, cleaned my floppies and tried them. To my surprise about 2 out of 3 were still working (they're a bit more than 30 years old). Heck, I even found a "New In Unopened Box" of 5"1/4 floppies and started making a few copies of some of the disks that were still working (out of boredom and curiosity more than to save data).


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