Re: 5.25" media

["TeoZ" <teoz@neo.rr.com>]

I purchased 500 bulk green colored 5.25 dd floppies from somebody a year ago
that didnt come with the paper sleeves. Anybody know where I can get sleeves
cheaply?


"Chris Morse" <chris@cosmicwolf.com> wrote in message
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> On 4 Aug 2003 13:02:39 GMT, et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)
> wrote:
>
> (SNIP)
> >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.
> >From time to time, I've gone through old disks and weeded out the mostly
> >empty, combining them onto a handful of disks.  And then, I instantly
have
> >"new" disks.
> >
> >   Michael
>
> Yah, when I got my Apple //e in '83 I recall floppies were $5 each.
> So $50 for a box of 10 sounds just about right!
>
> I would do a google search for the disks you're looking for.  A few
> months back I was looking around and I found a few places that still
> had stock left.  And they only wanted between $3 and $5 for a box of
> 10; happy to get rid of them.  Search around enough and you'll find
> them.. New..
>
> Cheers!
> // CHRIS
>