[email protected] writes:
>
>I still have my 1980 vintage notch cutter for turning single sided
>floppies into
>double sided.
>I also have a box of 5 8" floppies with the original price still on the
>box.
>$99.95.
It does seem odd now, doesn't it? $20 bucks a disk.
I wish there were someplace for me to sell the 8-inch floppies I have
here, a full box of them, and I'm talking storage box, probably 100+ disks
in it. I'll likely wind up cutting them in half and dumping them (they
have data from another secretarial service bureau obtained in a sale from
her to me). It'd be great to be able to wipe the disks and sell them, or
even give them away. I'm a horrible recycler and don't like tossing
things that can be used, especially if they fall under serious pollutant
standards.
Of course I have hundreds of 5-1/4s from my own business and many, many
dozens of 3-1/2s. Now, it's stacks of CDs. How times change.<g>
Glenna
starting on DVDs for storage now
Glenna Rose wrote:
> Of course I have hundreds of 5-1/4s from my own business and many, many
> dozens of 3-1/2s. Now, it's stacks of CDs. How times change.<g>
>
> starting on DVDs for storage now
I'm still holding out for those little 1" lucite cubes that are supposed to
hold 50 TB of data. Why aren't they here yet?
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:57:45 -0800, Glenna Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] writes:
>>
>>I still have my 1980 vintage notch cutter for turning single sided
>>floppies into
>>double sided.
>>I also have a box of 5 8" floppies with the original price still on the
>>box.
>>$99.95.
>
> It does seem odd now, doesn't it? $20 bucks a disk.
>
> I wish there were someplace for me to sell the 8-inch floppies I have
> here, a full box of them, and I'm talking storage box, probably 100+ disks
> in it.
There's a company online that sells "obsolete media". Google for them,
they might be interested in giving you more than nothing for them. If you
can't find the link, let me know and I'll find it.
> I'm a horrible recycler and don't like tossing
> things that can be used, especially if they fall under serious pollutant
> standards.
Well, they're mylar and iron oxide, so it's not like they're all _that_
nasty, but of course, I understand.
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:57:45 -0800, [email protected] (Glenna Rose) wrote:
>[email protected] writes:
>>
>>I still have my 1980 vintage notch cutter for turning single sided
>>floppies into
>>double sided.
>>I also have a box of 5 8" floppies with the original price still on the
>>box.
>>$99.95.
>
>It does seem odd now, doesn't it? $20 bucks a disk.
>
Remember the plastic boxes for holding .5.25 floppies. A crappy plastic box with
a flip up lid $30.
I was making them out of oak with roll tops and selling them for just a bit more
to friends in the computer club.
I still have my pine prototype roll top and use it everyday.
The roll top was made with a chunk of my wife's old blue jeans and 1/8 paneling.
It was one of my first ever wood working projects.
I'll post a picture in the binary group so youse can all have a good laugh.
Do I get a prize for bringing the thread back on topic.<g>
>I wish there were someplace for me to sell the 8-inch floppies I have
>here, a full box of them, and I'm talking storage box, probably 100+ disks
>in it. I'll likely wind up cutting them in half and dumping them (they
>have data from another secretarial service bureau obtained in a sale from
>her to me). It'd be great to be able to wipe the disks and sell them, or
>even give them away. I'm a horrible recycler and don't like tossing
>things that can be used, especially if they fall under serious pollutant
>standards.
>
Me neither
I probably have every floppy I ever made from the early 80s.
>Of course I have hundreds of 5-1/4s from my own business and many, many
>dozens of 3-1/2s. Now, it's stacks of CDs. How times change.<g>
>
I have roughly 5000 burned DVD/CDs.<g>
>Glenna
>starting on DVDs for storage now
I'm way a head of you. It's that or get buried.