Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-17 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I suspected they were GE-PAC related. Ended up getting them, we'll see if they are readble He would have made 5x more if he wouldn't have ignored my offer, sucks to be him. On 12/17/18 12:48 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk wrote: > On 12/9/18, 10:40 PM, "cctech on behalf of Mattis Lind via cct

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-17 Thread Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk
On 12/9/18, 10:40 PM, "cctech on behalf of Mattis Lind via cctech" wrote: Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 8 inch CDC disks from 1982. Maybe something interesting? I know what the software on those disks is, because I have these floppies too (

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/10/18 6:52 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > Al, why not offer $5 or $10 I made a higher offer than that, still no reply. I've had very little luck making offers on auction items. BIN is a different story. I think eBay changed something so that making an offer on auctions became a def

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-10 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 04:11 PM 9/12/2018 -0800, you wrote: >On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: >> theres a make an offer thing on it why not just use that > >Because a "make an offer" can carry some risks of OFFENDING the seller, if >they had thought that the value was not in the same general range

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 12/9/18 3:30 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > FWIW, years ago a friend of mine found some important floppies of his had all > developped mold on the magnetic surfaces. Which fouled read heads, making them > useless. We found that slitting open the covers, taking out the disks and > literally

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: theres a make an offer thing on it why not just use that Because a "make an offer" can carry some risks of OFFENDING the seller, if they had thought that the value was not in the same general range as your offer. Not much known history wit

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
theres a make an offer thing on it why not just use that On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 5:24 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I will be bidding on these > > On 12/9/18 1:40 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > > Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 > > > > 8 inch CDC dis

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
At 02:29 PM 9/12/2018 -0800, Al wrote: I will be bidding on these On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: I hope you get them. Cheaply. And if so, please let us know if the data was recoverable. I have some quite old floppies to someday get around to attempting to recover. Really curi

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 02:29 PM 9/12/2018 -0800, you wrote: >I will be bidding on these I hope you get them. Cheaply. And if so, please let us know if the data was recoverable. I have some quite old floppies to someday get around to attempting to recover. Really curious to see whether floppies suffer 'data evaporatio

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Adrian Graham via cctalk
> On 9 Dec 2018, at 22:40, Brent Hilpert via cctalk > wrote: > > On 2018-Dec-09, at 2:06 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: >>> On 9 Dec 2018, at 21:40, Mattis Lind via cctalk >>> wrote: >>> >>> Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 >>> >>> 8 inch CDC disk

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2018-Dec-09, at 2:06 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: >> On 9 Dec 2018, at 21:40, Mattis Lind via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 >> >> 8 inch CDC disks from 1982. Maybe something interesting? > > It might be just me, but thos

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I will be bidding on these On 12/9/18 1:40 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 > > 8 inch CDC disks from 1982. Maybe something interesting? >

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
> > prolly worth rescueing

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 12/09/2018 04:06 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: On 9 Dec 2018, at 21:40, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 8 inch CDC disks from 1982. Maybe something interesting? It might be just me, but those look like they’ve got

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Adrian Graham via cctalk
> On 9 Dec 2018, at 21:40, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > > Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 > > 8 inch CDC disks from 1982. Maybe something interesting? It might be just me, but those look like they’ve got great big holes cut in them? -- adrian/witc

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
söndag 9 december 2018 skrev Warner Losh : > > > On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 2:41 PM Mattis Lind via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 >> >> 8 inch CDC disks from 1982. Maybe something interesting? >> > > Like US launch

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 2:41 PM Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 > > 8 inch CDC disks from 1982. Maybe something interesting? > Like US launch codes? :) Doesn't the military still use 8" floppies for some operational systems th

CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 8 inch CDC disks from 1982. Maybe something interesting?