"John" <jliang@no-spam> writes:
>I think it is funny too, but seriously what can we do with 100 5.25 floppy
>discs,
I feel the same thing about 3.5" disks. I have 300-400 waiting for me to
go through them. Some are treasure, the rest trash, and the only way to
tell the difference is to go through them one by one.
>there aren't many alternative for the guy who try to sell it
The principal value of 5.25" floppy disks lies in the data they contain
from years past. However, there are still companies and people with very
old computers who might have a need or a use for fresh disks.
I imagine a company running an old IBM System/36 could still have a use
for 8" disks ... after all, if the machine still works and still does what
is required by the company, why not keep it?
Nick.
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Nick Andrew <nick@no-spam> wrote in message
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> John <jliang@no-spam> writes
>> I think it is funny too, but seriously what
>> can we do with 100 5.25 floppy discs,
> I feel the same thing about 3.5" disks. I have 300-400 waiting for
> me to go through them. Some are treasure, the rest trash, and the
> only way to tell the difference is to go through them one by one.
>> there aren't many alternative for the guy who try to sell it
> The principal value of 5.25" floppy disks lies in the data they contain
> from years past. However, there are still companies and people with
> very old computers who might have a need or a use for fresh disks.
> I imagine a company running an old IBM System/36 could still
> have a use for 8" disks ... after all, if the machine still works
> and still does what is required by the company, why not keep it?
Yeah, I gave a box of those 8" floppys away to some pathetic
creature fanged on the bum with an old dinosaur that uses them.
I've still got some of those dinosaur drives around, DEC PDP11s.
I had one operation scrounging an occasional box of punched cards too.