If I ever meet the guy who invented floppy disks, violence will probably ensue... Just the amount of grief those things caused me during the years when I had to deal with them.
I came into computers in 1997 which I am sure is later than you. I always had problems with them and with 100mb zip disks. There was always problems reading them and having them fail completely. My first flash drive was 64mb and failed. They were dodgy too but no problems w flash drives now