[Hidden-tech] More packrat stuff... files off an ms-dos system?

[Rikk Desgres]

This discussion is fascinating. Considering we are in the age of Blu-Ray,
Solid State Media and 1 TB hard drives. I'd be hard pressed to find anything
on my computer that would actually FIT on a 720K floppy these days.

Rikk
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on 6/12/08 1:09 PM, Robert Heller at heller at deepsoft.com wrote:

> At Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:15:02 -0400 Ron Miller <ronsmiller at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> I have a huge box full of 3.5 floppies too. I just checked on ebay
>> and you get a 1000 brand new 1.44 MB 3.5 inch floppies in 10-packs
>> for $50 for the whole lot. The 720K are rarer, but you can still get
>> a 10 pack for $10.
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> I believe you can just do a low-level format of a 1.44 MB 3.5 to 720K.
> You can't do the opposite though.
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> I too have a pile of 720K -- actually formatted to 640K, since that is the
> standard thing for OS-9/68000 (no, this is NOT MacOS 9, but something
> competely different.
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>> On Jun 11, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Rikk Desgres wrote:
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>>> $200 each?????? I must have a closet full. I wonder how much they
>>> go for
>>> used? I'd take $50 :-0
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>>> on 6/11/08 2:33 PM, ussailis at shaysnet.com at ussailis at shaysnet.com
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>>>> 720K floppies (the old 'double density,' 3 1/2") are very
>>>> expensive. My son
>>>> needed one for his job a couple years ago. They bought two at $200
>>>> + each.
>>>> One worked.
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