[Hidden-tech] Offer: 3 1/2 blank floppy disks

Stacy Kontrabecki swampdancer at comcast.net
Wed Jun 8 11:12:49 EDT 2011


My husband will love this! Gotta find the article. He is Uptight 
Insulators, retrofitting homes with dense-pack cellulose insulation, aka 
recycled newsprint. Perfora. Nice!

Can we shingle/shake a house with the floppies? Sounds like we have 
enough? The shingles on the side of my garage need replacing...

Stacy

On 6/7/11 9:53 PM, Will Loving wrote:
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> Really, though, I have a box with several thousand disks. How many 
> coasters does one really need? Now if we could find a way to compost 
> them or use them as raw material in asphalt or to replace cinder 
> blocks, then we really be making progress. I do recall years ago 
> reading about a fellow who insulated his house with bags of "perfora", 
> the perforated, tear-off edge paper from tractor feed dot-matrix 
> printers -- that people mailed to him...
>
>
> on 6/7/11 5:17 PM, Lynne Rudié at lynnerudie at verizon.net wrote:
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>     Claire -- this is great. But you forgot about what good coasters
>     they make. And setting a mug of hot coffee down on an old floppy
>     is a pretty good way to erase the data.
>     Lynne
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>     On Jun 7, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Claire Spencer wrote:
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>         fyi -
>         http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/reuse-recycle-floppy-disks.html
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>         10 Ways To Reuse or Recycle Floppy Disks
>
>
>          By Josh Peterson
>         <http://planetgreen.discovery.com/author/josh-peterson/>
>
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>
>            1. *Send them to Greendisk *
>            2. Greendisk <http://www.greendisk.com/gdsite/Default.aspx>
>                is a company that recycles floppy disks and about any
>               sort of techno trash
>               <http://www.greendisk.com/gdsite/Default.aspx>  that you
>               can think of. That means you, Zip drive.
>           3.
>
>            4. *Floppy Disk Bag *
>           5.
>
>            6. Instructables
>               <http://www.instructables.com/id/Floppy-Disk-Bag/>  has
>               instructions on how to build a bag out of floppy disks.
>               Nothing says "bag made out of floppy disks" like a bag
>               made out of floppy disks.
>           7.
>
>            8. *Floppy Disk Notepad *
>           9.
>
>           10. This little gadget from Etsy uses floppy disks as a
>               holder for notebook paper
>               <http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6278790> .
>               It's real useful, pocket-sized and the floppy disk
>               surfaces can be reused. Gearlog
>               <http://www.gearlog.com/2006/10/a_practical_use_for_floppies_t.php>
>                shows you how to make your own.
>          11.
>
>           12. *Use them in a DIY RAID Drive *
>          13.
>
>           14. You can build a RAID drive
>               <http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm>  out of what is
>               probably considered trash to most. If you don't like
>               that suggestion, go glue an abacus to your computer.
>          15.
>
>           16. *Floppy Disk Pen Holder *
>          17.
>
>           18. Make a floppy disk box
>               <http://www.feelthefunk.com/past_posts.php?sid=144> .
>               Put pens in. Take pen out. Write on floppy disk notepad.
>               You did good.
>          19.
>
>           20. *Floppy Disk CD Holders *
>          21.
>
>           22. I have to get this tip in before CDs go obsolete
>               <http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/reuse-waste-cds.html>
>               . You can take those old, old floppy disks (the actually
>               floppy ones) and cut them open. A CD or DVD
>               <http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/reuse-donate-unwanted-dvds.html>
>                will fit in there. Wikihow tells you how
>               <http://www.wikihow.com/Recycle-5.25%22-Floppy-Disks> .
>          23.
>
>           24. *Letter Holder *
>          25.
>
>           26. Mikeups <http://www.youtube.com/user/mikeups> , YouTube
>               contributor, shows us how to make a letter holder, a pen
>               holder and cubby holes out of floppy disks
>               <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tjv3Y8b14Q&eurl=http://www.instructables.com/id/Floppy-Re-use_1/
>               <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tjv3Y8b14Q&eurl=http://www.instructables.com/id/Floppy-Re-use_1/>>
>               .
>          27.
>
>           28. *Floppy Disk Dot Com Will Buy Your Disks! *
>          29.
>
>          30.
>
>
>           31. /From FloppyDisk.com <http://floppydisk.com/> : /
>          32.
>
>          33.
>
>
>           34. Recycling Program Extended to December 31, 2009. Send us
>               your old diskettes and we recycle them for use. It is
>               not necessary to erase or reformat the disks. We will
>               erase the data and reformat the diskettes here.
>          35.
>
>           36. It's easy. Just send your discs to:
>          37.
>
>           38. Floppydisk Recycle Program
>           39. 2620 Walnut Ave Unit D
>           40. Tustin, CA 92780-7028
>          41.
>
>           42. If you have 500 or more disks to recycle, we pay 2 cents
>               each for discs.
>          43.
>
>           44. Two cents per disk? 501 disks equals $10.02. That's
>               decent money for what is essentially garbage.
>          45.
>
>           46. *Donate them to the ACT Recycling Program *
>          47.
>
>           48. ACT is a program that employs the mentally challenged
>               <http://www.actrecycling.org/donations/disks.asp> . They
>               also recycle floppy disks. "Lend a hand and get rid of a
>               floppy disk," that's my motto.
>          49.
>
>           50. *Turn a Floppy Disk into a USB Drive *
>          51.
>
>           52. Thomas O Connor, managed to turn a floppy disk into a
>               USB drive
>               <http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/laptop-accessories/floppy-disk-turned-usb-drive-066166>
>               .
>
>             * *Bonus: *
>            *
>
>             * Make a little Starship Enterprise
>               <http://www.asciipr0n.com/archive/0013/bonnie/craft/> .
>
>
>         <http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/reuse-recycle-floppy-disks.html>
>
>         Claire Spencer
>         MBA Candidate 2012
>
>         The Isenberg School
>
>         (413) 847-1126
>
>
>
>         On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Shel Horowitz
>         <shel at frugalfun.com> wrote:
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>              At 10:35 AM -0400 6/7/11, Stacy Kontrabecki wrote:
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>             >Anyone have any use for these? I have dozens.
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