5 May
2005
5 May
'05
1:06 a.m.
Hi,
Tony Duell said:
Back in the mid '80s I got fed up with the high price charged for
floppies in the shops and started to bulk-buy them. To make up
sufficently large orders to get a decent discount I started to sell
them locally to various users, including a school. I bought "noname"
disks in thousands and repackaged them in tens and sold them with a
lifetime no-quibble guarantee, if one failed I'd replace it. I never
got any returns, so they were probably pretty reliable.
I'm still using some of the disks and the lockable disk boxes my supplier
threw in as freebies...
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Anyone know why modern floppy disks are such total junk? They seem to
Yes, they're too damn cheap....
I can rememebr paying \pounds 3.00 for a 5.25" floppy disk. One disk, not
a box of 10. My old model 1 stored 88K on such a disk. And those disks
are still readable 20+ years later.