6 Nov
2005
6 Nov
'05
3:31 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I've noticed that what passes for 3.5" blank
media nowadays is downright
awful. I've got a "work diskette" that's a Verbatim Datalife with a
date
code of sometime in 1997. Like the Energizer bunny, it just keeps going
and going. Newly-purchased media seems to last about 3 months of use,
tops.
Are there any sources for good reliable NEW media?
Look in the Yellow Pages for used office supply or office liquidation
dealers.
There's an office supply surplus here in Austin that I cruise at
least monthly for NOS floppy media. I've bought various formats 5.25"
disks there in the shrinkwrap for $0.25 to $1.00 a box, IBM-branded 2MB
(1.44MB) floppies for $3.00/100, and recently about 6 10-disk boxes of
DSDD 3.5" for $0.50 each.
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