Eric Smith wrote:
>
> Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_freegate.com> wrote:
> > I picked up an auction lot today and it contained, among other things, some
> > 5.25" disks that are hand labelled as "1.2MB Test Media". I'm wondering if
> > they are calibration disks for 5.25" drives. Realizing they are probably so
> > RARE that to L_at__at_K at them should cost $20 :-)
>
> Almost certainly they are exactly what they say, which is test media, i.e.,
> the media vendor made them for test purposes before they went into volume
> production. If they were calibration disks they would be labelled as
> such.
>
> I've got some Twiggy test diskettes made by 3M. I hadn't thought of trying
> to sell them on eBay; if production Twiggy diskettes can fetch $22, I wonder
> what test diskettes will fetch?
Considering the number of diskettes I've hand labelled "Test Media"
over the last 20 years, although I've usually specified particular
systems/drives rather than just capacity. What's a tech support
guy's TRS-80 model one test diskette likely to pull in? Or his 8"SS
Model 2 test diskette? I'd like to know, I've got disks and a felt
tip.
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Received on Tue Jan 12 1999 - 00:59:30 GMT