FYI: MEI/Microcenter is out of 5-1/4" diskettes

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Jan 23 10:27:05 1999

I have quite a number of experienced 8" diskettes I haven't discarded yet,
and a few (30-40) of the 5-1/4 types (unused) which I'd be happy to send
you, if you don't mind picking up the freight. Some of those 8" diskettes
even have useful stuff on them. I once "inherited" a friend's collection
of CP/M software but never got around to useing it for anything, since it
was in some wierd format I couldn't read at the time.

Dick

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> From: Mark <mark_k_at_iname.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: FYI: MEI/Microcenter is out of 5-1/4" diskettes
> Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 8:35 AM
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 Tony Duell wrote:
> >Ouch!. 8" disks are difficult to find, 5.25" disks are difficult to find

> >(what about 1.2 Mbyte ones - are they still available?), 3" disks are
> >impossible to find. I'd better start hoarding them...
>
> You can still buy 8", 5.25" HD and 3" disks. Trouble is, they may be
*Really*
> expensive; I noticed on the Imation web site a couple of months ago that
(from
> memory) a box of 8" disks was over US$100.
>
> 3" disks are still available new from at least one place in the UK,
though they
> are over 2 pounds each.
>
>
> -- Mark
Received on Sat Jan 23 1999 - 10:27:05 GMT