11 Jan
1999
11 Jan
'99
4:59 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)freegate.com> wrote:
Considering the number of diskettes I've hand labelled "Test Media"
over the last 20 years, although I've usually specified particular
systems/drives rather than just capacity. What's a tech support
guy's TRS-80 model one test diskette likely to pull in? Or his 8"SS
Model 2 test diskette? I'd like to know, I've got disks and a felt
tip.
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I picked up an auction lot today and it
contained, among other things, some
5.25" disks that are hand labelled as "1.2MB Test Media". I'm
wondering if
they are calibration disks for 5.25" drives. Realizing they are probably so
RARE that to L@@K at them should cost $20 :-)
Almost certainly they are exactly what they say, which is test media, i.e.,
the media vendor made them for test purposes before they went into volume
production. If they were calibration disks they would be labelled as
such.
I've got some Twiggy test diskettes made by 3M. I hadn't thought of trying
to sell them on eBay; if production Twiggy diskettes can fetch $22, I wonder
what test diskettes will fetch?