12 Jun
2005
12 Jun
'05
12:22 p.m.
Randy McLaughlin wrote:
From: "Allison" <ajp166 at
bellatlantic.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:41 AM
3.5" DSDD media is still available and cheap but you may need to special
order it.
I'd like to throw in here - there are a couple of office surplus
houses here that I haunt on a monthly basis. I've gotten NOS media
ranging from a couple of Black Watch 6250bpi 9-track reels to DVD-R
blanks and used floppies out the wazoo. Last month I picked up 8 10-pc
boxes of 3.5" DSDD disks for $0.50/box.
The deal is that the used office supply places seem to get more
floppy media and want a lot less for it than the computer shops. In
fact, one of these places used to throw all that away till I started
asking for it. Now he chucks it in a carton till I get to pick over it,
then puts it out on the shelf for a month or so before he tosses it.
Mike says I'm not the only buyer for "the weird stuff". ;)
Doc
> From: Scott Stevens <chenmel at
earthlink.net>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:28:37 -0500
<snip>
Years
back, I had good luck using a 720K (DSDD) 3-1/2" drive in place of
the 720K '80 track' 5-1/4" drive in an Intel PDS workstation. I
'converted over' all the original media from 5-1/4" by installing the 3
and 5 inch drives in a 'dual drive' configuration then ran the disk copy
utility.
Blank new 720K 3-1/2" media itself has become scarce now, though.
I still do this in my Kapro 4/84. In a pinch 1.44media will work fine
if the media select hole (not write protect) is filled.
Fortunatly I have a box of 720k media.
Allison