The "Rarity" of DS/DD 5.25" Disks, IMHO

[sirthomas@aol.com (SirThomas)]

>Now that DD disks are so rare...

(Maybe I'm looking too United States centric, but...)

With people trying to sell DS/DD disks at up to $10 for a box of 10 (no joke)
which is the price I paid for them in 1983 (I'm still crying about that), I
just wanted to say that DS/DD disks are not rare at all.  I passed many boxes
of 3M DS/DD disks at Wal-Mart just yesterday at about $6 a box.  Or you might
try my favorite places to pick up old DS/DD disks:  Goodwill or Salvation Army.
 Man, do those people have a lot of junk computers!  But, they also carry a lot
of junked DS/DD disks from the old days at prices that are cheaper than dirt. 
I walked away with three shoeboxes full of disks for five bucks a box!

So, IMHO, DS/DD 5.25" disks are not rare, they are just elusive.  ;)

You want RARE?  Ok.  Go and try to find an Amdek 3 inch disk.  Not 3.5, 3. 
(Yeah, they cornered that market by rounding down, didn't they?)  Rarer?  An
Exacton "stringy floppy."  Rarer still?  An original Twiggy 5.25" DS/DD disk
from the Lisa 1.  Now, that's rare.