On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: Although the ad says "1.44 megabytes", it is a 720K. The write enable notch is not openable to write protect it, and the shutter may have lost its spring..

The one *with* the spring working has a handy catch basin for your distal finger fragments. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm still right. -------

On 1/18/22 2:21 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: I like it! But I hate the price. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 04:47:36PM -0700, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: The ratios are wrong: it's about twice as thick as it ought to be. It's apparently been designed by somebody who has seen a picture of a floppy but never used one. Get a LACK table from IKEA (?6.99) and adorn it with 3D prints, or even old floppies? I'd advise against trying to machine patterns into it though as that low-end stuff is basically made of laminated cheese.

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 16:59, Peter Coghlan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: Actually, I feel a strange and atypical urge to defend IKEA here. I bought a 2nd hand IKEA bed off some chap on Fesse Bouc a few years ago. He said his girlfriend didn't like it and it gave her back ache. It was partly disassembled. When I came to rebuilt it, using a PDF of the instructions from the WWW, I discovered an important screw was missing. I went to my local IKEA, showed them the pic and the name of the bed, and they just gave me the right screw, free of charge for a 2nd hand item. When I came to assemble the bed, I discovered that the fool had assembled it wrongly in the first place and used the "missing" bolt in the wrong hole, making the whole frame slightly twisted and that's probably why his G/F didn't like it. But kudos to IKEA who publish the instructions for free online, facilitating the 2nd hand market, and to their after-care which includes no-questions-asked parts even for later owners. They also swapped a backpack of mine when a critical zip failed, even though I bought it in a different country and had no receipt. I think maybe the thing is to go there, not try to phone them. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 5:00 AM Peter Corlett via cctalk < cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: One might even say.. it's double density. (I'll see myself out)