On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> "Pete" == Pete Lancashire <[email protected]> writes: > > Pete> Sadly I've given up on FG. I was looking for a couple 8" DS floppy > Pete> drives, had a request to see if I could recover some CAD > Pete> data. Someone said the same thing so I called FG. Confirmed they > Pete> still had them but they would not sell them to me, had to be > Pete> scrapped, gave some super lame excuses. > > Was the excuse "they are in our museum"? I can't image that they are > still walking in the door in this day and age. I've only seen them > once, in the mid-1980s and they were obsolete then. That was 30 years > ago. > > > I get excuses from them like "we can't spare the staff to research and price every part that comes in" - so they only put a set list of parts in the store and that's all they'll sell. they used to occasionally do a thing called a "parts safari" where you could go in and dive through their boxes of sorted stuff they didn't plan to sell before they sent it off to recycling. it's been a few years since I last heard about it though. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
