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This isnt a great thing for the vintage mac/ amiga/PC-XT community
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Britt Dodd wrote:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20003360-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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> This isnt a great thing for the vintage mac/ amiga/PC-XT community
Uh oh! Good thing I bought a 500 disk surplus set off eBay a while ago. :D
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:13:15 -0400, Britt Dodd
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20003360-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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> This isnt a great thing for the vintage mac/ amiga/PC-XT community
"announced Friday that it would end Japanese sales"
Do you live in Japan?
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--- On Mon, 4/26/10, D. Finnigan wrote:
> Britt Dodd
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> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20003360-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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> > This isnt a great thing for the vintage mac/
> amiga/PC-XT community
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> "announced Friday that it would end Japanese sales"
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On Apr 26, 8:10 pm, "D. Finnigan" wrote:
> Do you live in Japan?
I think the point being made is that it can’t be long before Sony
discontinues floppies *outside* Japan as well. I can’t imagine they
would be keen to continue manufacturing them indefinitely, especially
since demand will only co
Maybe if this person (http://floppydisks.com/) actually still sells
them, he'll keep selling them still. They claim to sell 5 1/4 disks
too!
On Apr 27, 9:56 am, Mike wrote:
> On Apr 26, 8:10 pm, "D. Finnigan" wrote:
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> > Do you live in Japan?
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> I think the point being made is that it can’t be
On Apr 27, 2010, at 12:18 PM, hartonj wrote:
Maybe if this person (http://floppydisks.com/) actually still sells
them, he'll keep selling them still. They claim to sell 5 1/4 disks
too!
The original IBM floppy disks were 8".
These are still available (usually factory formatted for an IBM 347
Hello,
--- On Tue, 4/27/10, PeterH wrote:
> The original IBM floppy disks were 8".
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> These are still available (usually factory formatted for an
> IBM 3470, or equivalent) as these are employed to store
> microcode and configuration information on some IBM
> devices.
When you say "still avai
On Apr 27, 2010, at 1:14 PM, James Fraser wrote:
When you say "still available," do you mean that the manufacturing
capacity still exists for them? Or simply that a company or two
stockpiled them some time ago with an eye to future sales?
"Lots" of floppy disks, both "brand new" (but perh
I have had a lot of problems with "old" floppies. And it's more than loss of
information stored on them. Many just will not allow themselves to be
reformatted. And it's not just a difference with magnetic material on high
density two holers vs low density one holers.
I amuse myself thinking abo
Doug McNutt wrote:
I have had a lot of problems with "old" floppies. And it's more than loss of
information stored on them. Many just will not allow themselves to be reformatted. And
it's not just a difference with magnetic material on high density two holers vs low
density one holers.
I amus
--- On Tue, 4/27/10, PeterH wrote:
> I bought loads of Shugart 851 drives, for upgrading my
> Xerox 820 micros, some many years ago.
I did that on an 820-II. Xerox was a bit sneaky with the cable for the single
sided drives. It didn't include a wire for the side select pin. Since it was a
hand
--- On Tue, 4/27/10, Doug McNutt wrote:
> But I do have 50 or so floppies that simply cannot be
> formatted. I can't find visible defects with a
> microscope. Does anyone have any information on such
> effects? Do floppies just get old in the absence of use?
Error reading track 0?
Try an altern
I've dealt with those dudes, I've bought 800k disks from them for my Apple
IIgs and older Macs in the not too distant past. They are for real.
-Matt
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:18 PM, hartonj wrote:
> Maybe if this person (http://floppydisks.com/) actually still sells
> them, he'll keep selling
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