[Coco] 1.2 MB Floppies (again)

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Aug 4 13:03:11 EDT 2006


On Friday 04 August 2006 11:14, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>When I started working at my first RSCC in 1980, the list price for a
> 10-pack of 5.25" 35track SSSD floppies (85kB ea) was $49.95.  A 10-pack
> of 8" 77track SSDD floppies (500 kB ea) was $79.95.
>
Thats the price of bleeding edge (for 1980) you know :)

>--
>Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net
>
>Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
> of the last priest.  Denis Diderot

I'm beginning to think maybe thats not such a bad idea.

> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>
>> If you have a supply of these older disks, then its not a problem.  I
>> do too, for sale at $10 each. :)  Actaully I hoarded all I could get
>> back when I was runing a big box amiga.

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