8" and 5.25" floppy disks

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Fri Feb 8 07:20:02 2002

It makes me sorry I dumped the approximately 1500 boxes (about 10 cu. yd.) of
8" floppies I discarded some years back. I desperately needed the space,
though. I've still got what's probably sufficient for my own use until about
10 years after I'm dead, though I'm not planning to discard any more.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome Fine" <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: 8" and 5.25" floppy disks


> >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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