8" and 5.25" floppy disks

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Thu Feb 7 22:51:39 2002

>Gunther Schadow wrote:

> Since the issue came up recently, I requested a price quote
> from Athana. I told them it's a joint order with friends
> for 100 pieces. And this is what I got back:
>
> Per our telephone conversation of this date, Athana is please
> to send you the following quotation, for 5.25" and 8 inch
> diskettes, based on a combined quantity of 100 diskettes.
>
> 5.25" DD diskettes 8 Inch Diskettes (SS or DD diskettes)
> $0.85/diskette $7.50/diskette
>
> Shipping charges to Indianapolis are $12.00 via UPS ground.
>
> Now how does that sound, $7.50 per disk? Pretty stiff
> price, and the difference to the 5.25" DDs is quite
> interesting. Anyone found better prices?
> thanks,
> -Gunther

Jerome Fine replies:

I squirreled away some 8" SSDD floppies many years ago and
I may still be able to find them. I would charge no more than
half that price and probably less for a reasonable quantity - like
at least 50 if I still have that many?

If you all can total up your order, see how many you all want.

At first I used some an RX03 as DSDD media by punching
extra holes for the DS index location. Later I realized that
putting a DPDT switch into the detector circuit would fool the
RX03 drive into thinking that DS media were present when
only a SS media was there - saved punching the extra holes,
although obviously I still needed to do an LLF.

I also still have some 5 1/4" SSDD media as well.
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