Re: 5.25" media

[Chris Morse <chris@cosmicwolf.com>]

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