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

21 Jan 1999

Didn't realize 5 1/4" DD were getting hard to find. I threw out about 25k a
couple of months ago.

If you need some, let me know. I'm sure there are more here, somewhere...?

Steve Robertson - &lt;steverob(a)hotoffice.com&gt;

-----Original Message-----
From:	James L. Rice [SMTP:jrice@texoma.net]
Sent:	Wednesday, January 20, 1999 11:38 PM
To:	Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject:	Re: FYI: MEI/Microcenter is out of 5-1/4" diskettes

My Amigas and my classic Macs as well as several Tandy's use the DD
disks, so i buy all I can find.  I've bought a lot recently at
consignment store for about $1-2 for a box of 10.  I think I have about
2k in stock now.

James

"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
...

 I have been stocking up for the past three years. 
I have about 10k
stored.  Also 720k disks are not as easy to find anymore, so I've been
gather a supply of those also.  For my NeXT I scored a few boxes of
2.88's recently.  
 As I understand it the Amiga software industry is in a bit of a crisis at
 the moment because 3.5" DD floppies are no longer being made.  Well,
 they're also in a bit of a crisis thanks to the idiots running Amiga, Inc.
 killing the market last spring when it will be quite a while before the new
 Amiga is ready to ship.

                                 Zane

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