Re: 5.25" floppys - are they gone?

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Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com> wrote:

>	I went looking to order some boxes of 5.25" floppies for a GS system I
>ordered won the bid on at eBay, and came to realize that perhaps 5.25"
>disks are not produced anymore.  I ended up finding a few of the
>remaining boxes of Verbatim 5.25" ($.99/box) at egghead, but that was it.
>
>	Are there really none made anymore?  That blows me away.

Luckily, the IIGS is mainly a hard drive or at least a 3.5 drive
system.  As such, there is actually a program that lets you
run 5.25 disk images stored on a hard drive or a 3.5 drive.
So you might not need as many 5.25 disks as you otherwise
would.

Snooping around at WalMart, I do find a distinct lack of 5.25
disks.  But they still have DS/DD 720k MS-DOS formatted
disks, which is just the right type to reformat into 800k IIGS
disks.