[Coco] Second Floppy

[Frank Pittel]

The current pricing isn't the only problem. The availability and age of
both the drives and disks are the real issue. Besides drivewire is free
and I have a better chance of reading the images from my computer via
drivewire in 4-5 years then a floppy!

The Other Frank


On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:07:51AM -0500, Chad H wrote:
> 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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