3-1/2" Floppy Market Cornered

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Wed May 21 12:19:00 2003

My atari ST, Amiga 500,1200 Use them. DD disk drives were only used for a
few years so everybody went to HD production (still in use).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: 3-1/2" Floppy Market Cornered


> > Any original games on those 3.5's?
> >
> > I generally buy my disks bulk on ebay when I see a bargain. Most of my
old
> > 16 bit computers use those rare 3.5 DD disks, found 500 new for $20
once..
>
> Odd, most of my 16 bit machines use 8" disks...
>
> Are 3.5" DD floppies that hard to obtain? I've seen them on sale in high
> street shops over here in the last week or so (at twice the rpice of the
> HD ones, of course...). If they're getting hard to find, I'd better stock
> up, as my 9114s need them...
>
> -tony
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