Re: 5.25" media

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Simon Williams (email@luddite.ca) writes:
> Greg Andrzejewski <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> "Brian Smith" <bsmith94@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:UPcXa.130739$XV.7356949@twister.austin.rr.com...
>> 
>> > I was wondering if anybody has a favorite source for obtaining 5.25" media
>> > for the Apple IIgs. Thanks.
>> >
>> > -brian
>> >
>> Thrift stores, but moreover, garage sales. You'd be surprised what you find
>> sometimes and once you express interest in 5.25" disks, maybe they have some
>> other old stuff you can take off their hands... ;-)
>> 
>> -Greg
> 
> On the other hand... one of our local office supply stores still stocks
> 5.25" but they want $12.99 for a box of ten :(
> 
> 
That's cheap!

When I got my first floppy drive in 1984, obviously I had to go
out and buy some floppies.  I paid fifty dollars for a box of ten,
and since I can't imagine spending more than I could, that must have
been around the normal price here in Canada at the time.  I can't remember
if there were non-name disks here at that time, though I suspect right
at the beginning I would have bypassed them.

SOmetimes it pays just to go through the disks you already have.  When
they were cheap, I tended to put small things on a disk here and a disk
there, and put something temporarily on a disk that I then put aside.