7 Feb
2002
7 Feb
'02
2:51 p.m.
Gunther Schadow wrote:
Since the issue came up recently, I requested a price
quote
from Athana. I told them it's a joint order with friends
for 100 pieces. And this is what I got back:
Per our telephone conversation of this date, Athana is please
to send you the following quotation, for 5.25" and 8 inch
diskettes, based on a combined quantity of 100 diskettes.
5.25" DD diskettes 8 Inch Diskettes (SS or DD diskettes)
$0.85/diskette $7.50/diskette
Shipping charges to Indianapolis are $12.00 via UPS ground.
Now how does that sound, $7.50 per disk? Pretty stiff
price, and the difference to the 5.25" DDs is quite
interesting. Anyone found better prices?
thanks,
-Gunther
Jerome Fine replies:
I squirreled away some 8" SSDD floppies many years ago and
I may still be able to find them. I would charge no more than
half that price and probably less for a reasonable quantity - like
at least 50 if I still have that many?
If you all can total up your order, see how many you all want.
At first I used some an RX03 as DSDD media by punching
extra holes for the DS index location. Later I realized that
putting a DPDT switch into the detector circuit would fool the
RX03 drive into thinking that DS media were present when
only a SS media was there - saved punching the extra holes,
although obviously I still needed to do an LLF.
I also still have some 5 1/4" SSDD media as well.