Liz -

"Her" family used an old program to record some genealogical data that I had to pay to have converted from old 5" floppies in order to recover. Most of what I found was "errors," since the kid who did it as a scout project didn't have much to work with.

I have pulled out a few "modern" 3.5" floppies less than 10 years old and stored under very good conditions, and find more than 80% of them unreadable. Fortunately most of my records have been regularly moved to/through new machines and updated (re-saved in a current format) fairly regularly; but I suppose I've lost my income tax returns from before 1956 - maybe. In any real "archiving" system, the loss of the old programs that were mostly on those floppies would be the real tragedy.

John