Re: Shipping of 3.5" disk drives

[shack@frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

stephen e buggie (buggie@musca.unm.edu) wrote:

: I recently bought a platinum 3.5" drive on the A2.marketplace.

: The seller wrote that it was in perfect condition when shipped but it now 
: has mechanical faults:
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Check this out, I was just on AOL and saw a place in the classified ads
selling 800K floppy mechs for $5 a pop. I'd not bother trying to fix that
mech, I'd just slap another one into the case. The going price for superdrive
mechs is in the $70s on there these days too. A coupla years ago I got a
used 800K for $20 to go into my broken unidisk and thought I was doing well.
800K's are junk to the Mac crowd nowadays so they go for dirt.
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Randy Shackelford
shack@frii.com