On 1/23/23 15:43, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > On 1/23/2023 5:39 PM, Mike Begley via cctalk wrote: >> I must have missed your offer for 8" floppies! Please let me know if >> you still have any. >> >> I was looking for some a while back, and mostly found them in the >> $5.00/piece range, which is just ridiculous. > > I don't know. Isn't that what they cost originally? :-)
It's what I call the TV set phenomenon. A mid-range TV cost about $200 in that days currency. Still seems to be true. Actually, more than that. $50-100 for a box of 10 was close to the retail price back in 1975. But that was in 1975 dollars, back when you could rent a 1-bedroom apartment in San Jose for about $200/month. 5.25" floppies started out at about $5 each retail. Curiously, the price of my first box of high-density Fuji 3.5" floppies was about the same--$50--as was the price of my first box of 3M ED floppies years later. Now, I'm getting 64GB microSD cards for just under $5 each. --Chuck
