On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 6:21 PM Guy Dunphy wrote:
>
> So they are! Oops. Sorry!
> Maybe they had a rush of orders, and it's not entirely my fault?
> Or maybe the 89c price was a typo, and my order alerted them?
The magic of automatic reactive pricing systems, I guess.
I received my package from
At 06:43 PM 13/07/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes
>Without the exact zipcodes and weight, can't get exact postage.
>However, it is likely to be "zone 6", for which parcel post for 1 pound is
>$7.62. There are ways of getting some discounts, such as online orderin
On Sat, 13 Jul 2019, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
They confirmed my order. Fingers crossed they actually ship them, and it doesn't
turn into an argument about honoring transactions. Though probably, a higher
postage
cost would be fair. 88 floppies and covers will weigh a bit. (Should have
boug
TeoZ via cctalk writes:
> At least shipping is cheap.
>
> Never seen a 4 pack before. I still have tons of green 5.25" DD disks
> I picked up bulk when I got into 8 bit computers in the early
> 2000's. Duplicators were dumping them so cheap back then, wish I would
> have snagged more of the 3.5"
>They confirmed my order. Fingers crossed they actually ship them, and it
>doesn't
>turn into an argument about honoring transactions. Though probably, a higher
>postage
>cost would be fair. 88 floppies and covers will weigh a bit. (Should have
>bought 100.)
>4 Pack of 5.25" Floppy Diskettes wi
back then.
TZ
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From: Guy Dunphy via cctalk
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 7:21 PM
To: Jason T ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: 5 1/4 diskettes available
At 03:47 PM 11/07/2019 -0500, you wrote:
On 7/10/19 11:32 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk
At 03:47 PM 11/07/2019 -0500, you wrote:
>> On 7/10/19 11:32 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> > https://www.bgmicro.com/4-pack-of-5-25-floppy-diskettes-with-sleeves.aspx
>>
>> They have hub rings, so they are probably 360K
>
>Weren't these 89 cents when this was first posted? Well they're $1
> On 7/10/19 11:32 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
>
> > https://www.bgmicro.com/4-pack-of-5-25-floppy-diskettes-with-sleeves.aspx
>
> They have hub rings, so they are probably 360K
Weren't these 89 cents when this was first posted? Well they're $1.89 now.
You're altering the market!
> On July 11, 2019 at 9:10 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> wrote:
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>
> On 7/10/19 2:32 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
> > BG Micro, a surplus electronics dealer I buy from sometimes, has diskettes
> > for sale. I don't know anything about them, but thought it may be of
> > interest. I ha
On 7/10/19 2:32 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
> BG Micro, a surplus electronics dealer I buy from sometimes, has diskettes
> for sale. I don't know anything about them, but thought it may be of
> interest. I have no affiliation other than being a customer on their mailing
> list.
> Here is
On 7/11/19 12:29 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
> At 08:27 PM 10/07/2019 -0700, Grumpy Ol' Fred wrote:
>> The 5.25" diskette or "Mini-diskette" is bar napkin size, because Dr. Wang
>> said that 8" diskettes were too big. I have not been able to track down
>> WHICH bar.
>
> Perhaps the same bar
"360K" - 300 Oersted. vs 1.2M 600 Oersted.
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote:
Can you believe that is the first time I have ever heard the actual figures for
the coatings?
I knew the 1.2M type had a higher coercivity, thus the incompatibility. Ditto with
3.5" 720K
vs 1.44M.
Then add to
At 08:27 PM 10/07/2019 -0700, Grumpy Ol' Fred wrote:
>The 5.25" diskette or "Mini-diskette" is bar napkin size, because Dr. Wang
>said that 8" diskettes were too big. I have not been able to track down
>WHICH bar.
Perhaps the same bar where someone bet L Ron Hubbard that he couldn't create a
r
At 07:14 PM 10/07/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
>> And the index hole.
>
>What about it?
Because it's so long since I used any 360K floppies, that I could not
recall if some didn't have any hole. (But I did remember about the soft/hard
sectoring; 1 vs n
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
While the hub ring is *generally* a good indicator of "2D" versus "HD"
disks, I've seen exceptions. Early 2D floppies did not use the hub ring
and I've got a few HD ones that do. The hub ring thing is a story in
itself, which I've gone into in
On 7/10/19 7:14 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> They have hub rings, so they are probably 360K
To add a bit to Fred's excellent explanation, I can offer the following:
While the hub ring is *generally* a good indicator of "2D" versus "HD"
disks, I've seen exceptions. Early 2D floppies did n
They have hub rings, so they are probably 360K
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
And the index hole.
What about it?
There were some machines that didn't use the index (such as Apple and
Commodore), but they didn't care if there was one.
There were some that used 10 or 16 inde
At 12:25 PM 10/07/2019 -0700, you wrote:
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>
>On 7/10/19 11:32 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
>
>> https://www.bgmicro.com/4-pack-of-5-25-floppy-diskettes-with-sleeves.aspx
>
>They have hub rings, so they are probably 360K
And the index hole.
Thanks Will, this is quite fortuitous. I've just re
On 7/10/19 11:32 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
> https://www.bgmicro.com/4-pack-of-5-25-floppy-diskettes-with-sleeves.aspx
They have hub rings, so they are probably 360K
BG Micro, a surplus electronics dealer I buy from sometimes, has diskettes for
sale. I don't know anything about them, but thought it may be of interest. I
have no affiliation other than being a customer on their mailing list.
Here is a link to the site:
https://www.bgmicro.com/4-pack-of-5-25
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