[Coco] Second Floppy

[Chad H]

Interesting how that works... I remember my dad paying a couple hundred
bucks for a FD-501 unit back in the day from Radio Shack....over the years
the prices on drives went down...way down...now that they've become rare and
are still in demand, the prices come back up slightly, but still can get
them cheaper than you could back in the 80's.  And this is bad?

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Frank Pittel
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 11:28 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Second Floppy

Everytime I see where the price of drives are going I redouble my efforts to
moving from floppies to drivewire!!

The Other Frank


On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:15:03AM -0400, Frank Swygert wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:58 -0400
> From: Louis Ciotti<lciotti1 at gmail.com>
> 
> I would like to add a second floppy to my FD-501 case.  Any reasonable 
> priced sources?
> 
> ----------------------------------
> 
> And I thought the days of $100+ 5.25" 360K floppy drives were over! The
average price I found searching around were in the $55-$75 range, with
several as high as $235 for refurbished high end drives.
> 
> I did find some on e-bay under $50, and California Digital is still
advertising beige Misubishi drives for $39 and Tandon 180K (single sided
like the original CoCo drives) for only $9. Go to
http://www.cadigital.com/flopdriv.htm and scroll down near the bottom of the
page. Those are the guys with the $45 Dragon 64 computers -- they still
advertise them!
> 
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