24 Oct
1997
24 Oct
'97
4:54 a.m.
At 06:41 AM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
disks. Possibly the drives just need cleaning, though.
I just wish I had
a cleaning kit for 5.25" drives (ugh!). I think it's already been
mentioned where those are available.
I picked up a kit with both a 5.25 & 3.5 cleaning disk at CompUSA for like $2.
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31 Oct
31 Oct
8:03 p.m.
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Uncle Roger wrote:
At 06:41 AM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
Cool. But I don't feel like going through customs JUST for that. :) I'll
just have to check out some of the more normal computer shops, seeing as
these kits seem to still be current (I just assumed that as the drives
are unavailable, and the disks pretty hard to find, that the cleaning kits
were long gone).
Thanks for the tip.
disks. Possibly the drives just need cleaning,
though. I just wish I had
a cleaning kit for 5.25" drives (ugh!). I think it's already been
mentioned where those are available.
I picked up a kit with both a 5.25 & 3.5 cleaning disk at CompUSA for like $2.
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sinasohn(a)crl.com that none but madmen know."
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Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
1 Nov
1 Nov
4:53 a.m.
Doug Spence wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Uncle Roger wrote:
They're in the current Radio Shack catalog, so I have little doubt that you
can find them at Tandy outlets in the Great White North.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
At 06:41 AM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
Cool. But I don't feel like going through customs JUST for that. :) I'll
just have to check out some of the more normal computer shops, seeing as
these kits seem to still be current (I just assumed that as the drives
are unavailable, and the disks pretty hard to find, that the cleaning kits
were long gone). disks. Possibly the drives just need cleaning,
though. I just wish I had
a cleaning kit for 5.25" drives (ugh!). I think it's already been
mentioned where those are available.
I picked up a kit with both a 5.25 & 3.5 cleaning disk at CompUSA for like $2. 
4:07 p.m.
On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
They're in the current Radio Shack catalog, so I
have little doubt that you
can find them at Tandy outlets in the Great White North.
Except that they closed all the Tandy outlets in Sept (or was it Oct) of
1990. (I worked at one at the time.) Of course, we still have Radio
Shacks...
ttfn
srw
5:12 p.m.
Scott Walde wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Those are specifically the Tandy outlets I was referring to. The
Computer
Centers in the US have been closed about that long as well. Nowadays
it's
depressing to go into a Radio Shack store and see a couple of crappy IBM
Aptivas when you remember such ahead-of-their-time systems as the TRS-80
Model 16 and the Tandy 2000. Although I will admit to buying
peripherals
and software at Tandy's Computer City chain in recent years.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the
entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
They're in the current Radio Shack catalog,
so I have little doubt that you
can find them at Tandy outlets in the Great White North.
Except that they closed all the Tandy outlets in Sept (or was it Oct) of
1990. (I worked at one at the time.) Of course, we still have Radio
Shacks...
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