7 Feb
2002
7 Feb
'02
11:20 p.m.
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(a)idirect.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)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.