18 Apr
2013
18 Apr
'13
12:20 p.m.
humph,,
And I'm sitting on two 20 gallon crates of 8" with CP/M software
and data on them and maybe a few new boxes along with a large box
of RX01/2 media mostly RT-11.
Haven't check them in about 10 years but I bet from the sample of RX02 and
the few I use for the NS* 8" floppy system I'd expect they are still good.
Same for all the 5" flavors, though generally I found the 1.2MB 5.25 to
universally to be with worst for bit rot.
For standard 8 and 5.25 stuff I have had few failures. For 3.5 I've had
much
grief with cheap media shedding to the heads (sometimes the drives fault)
and then taking the next disk with it by abrasion. Thankfully I still have
10 boxes of sony (from the late 90s) 720K and a few boxes of TDK and
other names from the same period 1.44mb stuff. I use those in my
frankenstein Kaypro 4/84 and the AmpoLB+ mostly and also the
Epson portable disk (3.5" equipped systems I run often).
Once I realized some media was crap, and some drives as well I cleaned house
years ago of the junk to trash.
Allison
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:
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.
-ethan