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

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

SirThomas (sirthomas@aol.com) 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.

Got one.  In fact, I have the whole software package...a copy of Lisa
COBOL.  Someone heard that I had a Lisa, and sent it to me, still in the
shrink wrap.

Unfortunately, the software turned out to be on Twiggies, for the Lisa. 
My machine is a Lisa 2/5.

(which, by the way, hit the "Y2K" brick wall on 01/01/1996)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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