available 8" disks

From: Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk <(Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk)>
Date: Tue Jun 23 08:02:57 1998

> I have about two xerox paper boxes of 8" floppies. this is several
> hundred floppies.
>
> Box one is the entire sigm and cpmug volumes and they are readable.

Readable? By what machine? Are they single or double sided and what
format?

(My machines with 8inch: IBM System/23, FTS Series 88 (FTS is CP/M86).
I also intend one day to get a PDP running, and connect an RX02 to it.)

> Box two is mostly blanks or believed to be.
>
> Local pick up or shipping would be small quantities of disks so they can
> be packed in plastic disk boxes.

As usual, shipping to the UK is likely to be expensive. I am reluctant
to buy secondhand blank disks, although given the quality of most new
disks nowadays, secondhand ones are unlikely to be any worse...

> If there is no interest I intend to dump these as it's filling the garage.

I don't think I'll buy disks unless they have something really nice on
them, but:

If you do get to the point of throwing disks away, please keep the paper
envelopes, and I will pay for shipping of these. I am very short (some
disks three to an envelope at present) because I also store photographs
in them (I get 8 inch square prints back from the developer).

Philip.
Received on Tue Jun 23 1998 - 08:02:57 BST