18 Apr
2013
18 Apr
'13
2:54 p.m.
Asses or assets? The problem with the floppies I think is even "nos" or cib or
used the oxide can still flake off in your drive so its sorta a risk either way.
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Subject: Re: floppies
On 04/18/2013 12:50 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
<sales at elecplus.com> wrote:
Hind-sight is 20/20, they say.....
Too bad we sit on our asses all the time.
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"Computers have lots of memory but no imagination."
"The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back."
- from some guy on the internet.
We have cases of new 360KB floppies, and a few
boxes of new 1.2MB floppies
left.
Someone on the list was lamenting the rarity of 8" floppies - anyone
still sell those NIB?
20 years ago, a friend had a PC accessory sales business. He stumbled
upon *pallets* of cases of shrink-wrapped 8" floppies for cheap. He
picked 2-3 pallets up with the intent of trying to sell them as
novelty items including analog clock faces. After several years of
essentially zero sales in the early 1990s, he got tired of them taking
up floor space and chucked the lot. He saw the future value of them,
but couldn't afford to wait around 10+ years for demand to rise. With
the fluctuations of of the fortunes of the PC biz, his company didn't
survive to the 21st century, so they'd be gone now one way or another,
but I do look back at that mountain of media and wish I'd had a
climate-controlled place to store them.