Hello, I'd definitely be interested. How many do you have? Tom
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:35 PM, m black <black...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hey all you really nice smart people > > I have a boatload of old discs. Are they worth anything to anyone? > > Both 400k and 800k I would be willing to attempt to clean them before I > sent them off to someone. > > MB > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 7, 2014, at 12:07 PM, "Hardware Mack" <hardwarem...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > also i wanted to add this in there too... if your in a pinch, you could > throw an 800k floppy drive in a 128k or 512k, and it will work as long as > you cut lines 9 and 20 on the floppy cable. > > Charles > MacCaps.com > > > > On Mar 7, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Jeff Walther wrote: > > > > On Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:34:01 PM UTC-6, James Fraser wrote: >> >> >> Hello, >> >> > The 800k drive reads and writes to two sides of an 800k floppy. To make >> a 400k >> > floppy, the option is to format then write to only one side of that >> disk. >> >> Did 400k floppy disks work the same way that the old 5-1/4" floppy disks >> did in the sense that both sides of the 400k disk were potentially >> writable/readable, but only *one* side was inspected and quality-assured? >> > > Yes. There was a period there during which one could buy a box of 400K > disks at one price, or a box of identical 800K disks for a much higher > price, but the only difference was that the 800K disks had both sides > guaranteed -- whether they were actually inspected I can't say, but it > seems unlikely based on cost. > > One was generally much better off buying the 400K disks. Occasionally you > got one in the box which would only work as a 400K disk, but for the > savings it was well worth it. > > Jeff Walther > > > -- > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to > vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to > vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to > vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vintage-macs/RQzs_yPGNws/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. 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