8-inch floppy availability - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Oct 1999

--- CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
...
  Ethan Dicks wrote:

 I did spot the obvious format switch on the front
of the disk unit, but no
idea how to use it.  I now wish that I'd picked up a couple more boxes of
media from a friend's business about eight years ago.   
 What part of the world are you in, Ethan?  
For the moment, Ohio, but occasionally from various points in the Southern
Hemisphere.

...
  Here in North America, new 8" floppies
(preformatted, even) are readily 
 available from a number of sources.   
I know they are available for enough money.  I was lamenting the fact that I
could have picked up a bootload for nothing and never had to buy another disk
again.  I have a case of formatted disks and several cases of used disks with
data files from schools and at least one university lab that I can reformat
and test.

Mostly, I want to be able to extract the data *from* the floppies, not put
more data *on* them.  I hope to stuff an 8" drive from my DataRam Q22 box
on an old 486 for data recovery, then back up my crate of PDP-8 and PDP-11
floppies.

-ethan

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