[Color Computer] [Coco] Why USB would be nice.

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

not to flog a dead horse (or keep this topic alive) but you can pick up new 
old stock 5 1/4 dd disks all day long on e-bay, and 80 computer news sells 
them and dd 3 1/2 also. they are cheap and easy to find. i am sure a seach 
on google will bring a lot of results too.
-Glen

>
>On 09/01/2005 06:50 pm, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
>
> > 25 years later, it is now starting to get harder to find 5 1/4 floppies. 
>I
> > don't think we can write of 3 1/2 just yet.
>
>Haven't seen "new" 5.25 floppies for pushing 10 years and those were HD 
>unfit
>for a 180k drive.  8" floppies (either SS or DS, I've got a Model 2 and a
>T6k) I haven't seen offered new for over 15.  On this list I've read about
>the difficulty finding 720k 3.5" rather than the HD type.
>--
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>consisting of taxes, fees, charges, fines, and other species of
>extractions from the people's purses. This sum works out to
>approximately $7,500 for every man, woman, and child resident in this
>country, or $30,000 for a family of four average persons. Perhaps some
>of those people feel they are getting benefits worth at least this much.
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