[Coco] 720K floppies... was: Frustrated in Seattle

[mike delyea]

I use 1.44mb disks with tape over the 1.44mb hole and so far I haven't
had any problems (touch wood).

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:47 PM, George Ramsower
<georgeramsower at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Sadly, most people today that have 3.5 inch floppies realize they have too
>  many that they no longer use and they just toss them. In some cases, they
>  just toss them all because they don't even use them any longer. I don't..
>  not on this PC.
>
>   I got lucky year before last. My boss did just that, he brought them to
>  work and tossed them in the dumpster.
>
>   Oh happy day! I dived right in there and got all the floppies. Tossed back
>  the 1.44s and kept the 720s. I gleaned about sixty of the 720s from that
>  lot. Soon after, I formatted them, tossed the ones that just refused to
>  format and now I have 55 of them.
>   I keep them in a controlled environment and I'm SO HAPPY to have them.
>  However, I don't think I'll ever use them all.
>
>   Since I have a good serial port to this PC, I can use LHA to backup the
>  stuff on the coco and store that onto CDs. I only need a floppy to make a
>  boot disk, or in the case of my CNC machine, an operating system with the
>  files needed for that.... or whatever else I choose to use the machine for.
>
>   I could share a few of these with others that may have a real need. Since
>  there are so few, I'll have to decide on how many each person that requests
>  some will get.
>   Just let me know if you want some and when the flood of requests are done
>  coming in, I'll make that decision and mail them to you.
>
>   Postage isn't a problem so don't worry about that. I can handle it. You pay
>  what I paid, except you won't have to go "Dumpster Diving".
>
>  Write to: floppies at TheTinBox.com give your name and address and you'll be on
>  the list. If there is are too many requests, then you might get only one, or
>  none.
>  It's a floppy lottery.. hehe
>
>   This email address is a temporary addy and will give you an auto response
>  with confirmation of your email and a way to contact me directly.
>
>
>  George
>
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