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

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <19990131110911.28710.00002262@ng110.aol.com>,
sirthomas@aol.com (SirThomas) wrote:

> 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.

Heh. I've hand-cut Twiggy floppies for the hell of it, but I have yet to
test them out. After all, the ones with Lisa 1s with Twiggy drives will
either sell it to you for $5000 or tell you that you can pry it from their
cold, dead hands.
I actually had someone offer to sell me (at a highly inflated price) a
Lisa 1 which had been converted to a Lisa 2 with 3.5 drive and all because
it could be 'converted back'...uh huh, and you get those twiggy mechanisms
where?