Re: Ideal modern 5.25 floppy disk and 3.5 floppy disk storage?

[Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, jeremym wrote:

> I have about 500 Apple //e disks .. mostly 5.25. (I also have about
> 1000 3.5 Amiga disks.)
>
> I'm looking to replace the shoeboxes I'm currently storing them in
> with something modern and flexible, and hopefully, inexpensive.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to store these puppies in the modern age?
>
> Thanks in advance.
I'd go with garage sales and such for the 5.25" boxes.  I do see them,
and if I could figure out a need for them, I'd have bought them.

I have some, from when those floppies were in their prime, but for a lot 
of my 5.25" disks, I just kept them in the boxes that the blank floppies
came in.  Not good for constant use, but fine for archival storage.  Even 
when I used them regularly, I never used more than a relative few on
a  regular basis.

For 3.5", one tip I picked up in one of the magazines decades ago was to 
use boxes sold for 4" by 6" index cards.  The floppies fit fine, though 
some of the file boxes are better than others for such purposes.  They 
were cheap, they stacked well, yet stayed closed.  For floppies that
you are using a lot, you can remove the top by cutting the plastic 
"hinge", making it easy to go through the floppies and pull the needed
one out.

Of course, in the days of the 3.5" floppies, I was buying them in
larger amounts than the packs of ten that I tended to buy 5.25" floppies,
so the boxes the 3.5" floppies were even better for archiving than
the 5.25" boxes, since I could store more.  The last two times I bought
blank floppies, they came in platic boxes that were intended for more
permanent storage.

   Michael