I don't need the actual floppies - but I'd love to have a photo of them. I also teach a class on Management Information Systems, and I sometimes talk about computing history. Would be good to have a few more photos of old media to include.
You can email me offlist. Jim On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 3:56 PM E. Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi users :-) > > While sorting through some old stuff, I have collected: > > Circa 30 classic 5.25 inch 360k floppy disks, half of > which were not yet formatted, but are formatted now > > Circa 9 classic 5.25 inch 1200k floppy disks, also > empty and formatted > > And I have found that I have no mainboard which still > understands 360k drives in the BIOS, so I have a PC10 > 360k floppy drive left over and will keep one of my > two 1200k floppy drives here. > > Costs for all the above: Basically zero, but it would > be nice to pay the postage. Would be nice to keep the > things in use instead of throwing them to the waste. > > In addition, I have found a small number of floppy > disks in CP/M format, which are very likely readable > using some of the drives here, but I do not know HOW > to read them, software wise. I cannot even use dd to > make a diskimage, probably different sector sizes? > > So if anybody would like some of the empty disks or > that PC-10 360k drive (I think you can make music by > connecting drives to microcontrollers ;-)) please let > me know. Also, if anybody can help me to extract the > data from those CP/M floppies, I would be happy, too! > > Please let me know when you are interested in any of > the above or would like to help. Thank you! > > Cheers, Eric (Germany) > > PS: I also have some fancy 5.25 inch boxes for storing > 10 floppies each, made from plastic. Probably nice for > mailing the floppies around. > > PPS: I have a LARGE amount of non-empty 360k disks, too, > but am too lazy to format them, so I just copied their > contents and plan to throw those away soon, after all. > Next, I will be processing some of my old 1.44MB disks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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