CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

[Adrian Graham]

> On 9 Dec 2018, at 22:40, Brent Hilpert via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 2018-Dec-09, at 2:06 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
>>> On 9 Dec 2018, at 21:40, Mattis Lind via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>>> Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797
>>> 
>>> 8 inch CDC disks from 1982. Maybe something interesting?
>> 
>> It might be just me, but those look like they’ve got great big holes cut in them?
>> 
> 
> If you're thinking of the blue 'slashes' near the horizontal middle of the disks that look like the back of the pouch showing through a hole cut in the disk, I think those are  actually tabs on the back of the pouch extending up in front of the next disk back, kind of like file folder tabs.
> Don't think I've seen pouches with that before but probably intended to make it easy to grab a disk by the pouch when they're all down in the box.
> Look at the magnified view of the 3rd pic.


Ah yes, that makes much more sense. I can see it now.

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