10 May
1998
10 May
'98
5:36 a.m.
On 9 May 1998, Frank McConnell wrote:
Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com> wrote:
WeirdStuff has boxes of 3.5" diskettes that they're giving away. Right
besides the counter near the (new) entrance. It usually has a sign on it
that says "FREE, take as many as you want". They're basically Adobe font
diskettes (all the same) so they have a colorful label on them, but
they're useable.
I've been finding parts of HP 150's for a
few months now, and I finally
collected enough of them today for a complete system (including a new
in-the-box integral printer), but I'm short on stiffies. Anybody know a
source of stiffies? I have the 9121 drive, which I think is single-sided.
They aren't special, any decent double-sided 720KB stiffies should be
usable. At least that is what I used to do. Well, that is, unless you have one of the real early
9121s that doesn't
open the door on the stiffy. That's why some of the older HP stiffies
have "pinch" stamped in the corner -- for those drives, you're supposed
to slide the door over to the left 'til it catches, then pinch where
indicated to close it.
Oh man! I remember those. I think I still have one somewhere.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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