10 Oct
2012
10 Oct
'12
6:22 p.m.
On Oct 10, 2012, at 7:47 PM, jim s wrote:
I picked up 5,000 disks about 10 years ago, for $10 /
flat (1,000 / flat) at a back door sale at a storage unit. We were leaving ACP in Santa
Ana, and one of the units had the door up and stuff tossed out with prices. Could also
have picked up a stage smoke generator too for $50. I had enough of those at home with
unconditioned caps. Seemed funny at the time.
He had huge piles he got from a former partner in the rent that had acquired them from a
service which turned out things like the annoying AOL diskettes for mailers with some crap
on it. With the label already on it, the outfit scrapped about 100,000 of them. Not that
big a pile.
I don't buy 3 1/2" diskettes anymore.
Do they still work? About half the 3.5" disks I've bought in
the past 10 years or so were DOA and had soft errors after a
format in an otherwise reliable drive. Most of the ones I
have from the mid-'80s to early '90s still work fine 100% of
the time.
- Dave