29 Aug
2001
29 Aug
'01
2:44 p.m.
On Aug 29, 19:10, Tony Duell wrote:
Sounds like a surplus shop called 'Display
Electronics' over here. The
last advert I saw from them (a couple of months ago) listed 8" floppy
drives for close to \pounds 500 (no, not \pounds 5.00, which is what they
tend to sell for at rallies)
What's more, they've been selling -- or at least advertising -- the *same*
floppies for over 10 years. I imagine they've not sold (m)any :-)
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
29 Aug
29 Aug
3:53 p.m.
Well, I sold a pair of old Memorex FDD's in very good condition for their age,
to a fellow here for $650 each about five years back, and he was happy to get
them because they were the only hard-sector (using outer-ring sector holes)
drives he could convince himself worked with his client's hardware. I'm sure he
octupled his money, too. They went to a nearby government contractor's nuclear
materials processing site.
They were the drives I salvaged from my old NBI word processor, the 8008 CPU of
which now serves as a high-tech Tie Tack, and has for 15 years. If he'd asked
me for them, I'd probably have given them to him with my compliments, but he
offered me the dough, so I took it ...
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: california digital
On Aug 29, 19:10, Tony Duell wrote:
Sounds like a surplus shop called 'Display
Electronics' over here. The
last advert I saw from them (a couple of months ago) listed 8" floppy
drives for close to \pounds 500 (no, not \pounds 5.00, which is what they
tend to sell for at rallies)
What's more, they've been selling -- or at least advertising -- the *same*
floppies for over 10 years. I imagine they've not sold (m)any :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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