Subject: Re: novelty 5.25 floppies
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 21:44:28 AKDT
I have a 5.25" drive also. In my nice, shiny 1.8 Ghz Athlon (underneath
my 40x Cd-RW and my DVD - hows that for a setup, eh :) )
I don't have any disks at the moment though. I mainly use it for
testing old game disks I come across. I think some stores still sell
them, but if you want them on the cheap, I know just about every thrift
store has at least one sealed box of them sitting around somewhere :)
Or Alaska Used Computers carries them, I know for sure.
Justin
John Peck wrote:
>
> Just for the heck of it, when I came across a 5.25 floppy drive last
> week, I decided to install it. I figured I could just about use it
> like a proprietary/encrypted storage device, seeing how few people have
> a working drive regularly available nowadays.
>
> Anyway, as far as I can tell, it works just fine, but... I haven't been
> able to find any disks to use with it! So, does anyone out there have
> a handful of 5.25s I can have?
>
> -John
>
> P.S. - sorry if I dated anyone too much...
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