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

[Robert Heller]

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.

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.

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  
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> > 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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