FYI: MEI/Microcenter is out of 5-1/4" diskettes - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Jan 1999

I have quite a number of experienced 8" diskettes I haven't discarded yet,
and a few (30-40) of the 5-1/4 types (unused) which I'd be happy to send
you, if you don't mind picking up the freight.  Some of those 8" diskettes
even have useful stuff on them.  I once "inherited" a friend's collection
of CP/M software but never got around to useing it for anything, since it
was in some wierd format I couldn't read at the time.

Dick

----------
...
  From: Mark &lt;mark_k(a)iname.com&gt;
 To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
...
  Subject: Re: FYI: MEI/Microcenter is out of
5-1/4" diskettes
 Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 8:35 AM

 On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 Tony Duell wrote:
 >Ouch!. 8" disks are difficult to find, 5.25" disks are difficult to find

...
  (what about 1.2
Mbyte ones - are they still available?), 3" disks are 
impossible to find. I'd better start hoarding them...  
 You can still buy 8", 5.25" HD and 3" disks. Trouble is, they may be
*Really*
...
  expensive; I noticed on the Imation web site a couple
of months ago that (from
...
  memory) a box of 8" disks was over US$100.

 3" disks are still available new from at least one place in the UK, though
they
...
  are over 2 pounds each.

 -- Mark 