8" hard sectored floppies

From: Frank Smith <frank_at_artair.com>
Date: Wed Jun 2 16:44:39 2004

--On Wednesday, June 02, 2004 13:22:39 -0400 Damien Cymbal <d_cymbal_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> Are hard sectored 8" floppies of any use to anyone? I've got several boxes of still shrink-wrapped SSSD hard sector disks. I've sold a couple boxes on epay, but action on them was lower than I'd imagined. Some folks who resell alot of 8" floppies
> told me "good luck" because hard sectored just don't sell.
>
> I've seen new soft sectored disks advertised online for fairly hefty prices (don't know if they are selling at that price or not). What systems made use of these? Any that I might own or want to own some day that it'd be worth me holding on to these
> if I can't sell them for a price worth it to drive to the post office and ship them?

I'd be willing to buy a box or two of them to use in my Altair floppy drives if
they are 32 sector floppies.

Frank
Received on Wed Jun 02 2004 - 16:44:39 BST