[Coco] Are 5 1/4" floppies still made???

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 26 20:06:08 EST 2017


Mostly PDP-11 but I still have some 8" CP/M disks floating around, too.
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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Spencer via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Are 5 1/4" floppies still made???

Hello Bill.
Just curious, what system do you use the 8" diskettes with?  Let me guess, a TRS-80?


    On Tuesday, December 26, 2017, 3:32:09 PM EST, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:

 I still have and use 8" floppies.  Including a couple boxes still
in the shrinkwrap.  I also have several boxes of brand new 720K
3.5" disks.

bill

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Subject: Re: [Coco] Are 5 1/4" floppies still made???

I have at least that many also.  When new programs are unloaded to the archive I actually download and put them on physical floppies

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Subject: Re: [Coco] Are 5 1/4" floppies still made???


I have over 400 of them, but no 5 1/4" drive to use them with

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From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Allen Huffman
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Subject: [Coco] Are 5 1/4" floppies still made???

I was under the assumption that these stopped being made ages ago, but as I listen to CoCoTALK getting caught up, I hear talk about using them. Are folks really using 30 year old media?


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