FS Parts: Box o floppies

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Found a old box with about 30 floppy disks. They are brand new Memorex Cool disks unformatted with the labels.There 28 of them. I figure they are worth a buck a piece now at least so 30 shipped for the lot of them. PM me with interest

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You don't specify if these are double density or high density. But as translucent floppies either were not out there or popular until high density, they are likely high density.

If they are HD, then they aren't worth hardly a thing. High density 3.5" disks are in more abundance than probably any other floppy ever made.

Now if they are double density, they are of use to old Mac collectors (where the oldest macs had 400K single sided double desnity and 800k dual sided double density drives), and Amigas. Probably Atari ST, and other classic computers that used double density 3.5" disks.

GLWTS.
 
Lol floppy disks. I as much as I loved the 80s and 90s I never could stand floppy disks and I'm thankful for usb flash. Anyway glws!
 
Lord man, where you been? I just installed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 off floppy earlier today.
LOL! Earlier today I copied a program from a single 3.5 floppy to a CD-R, so they owner could use it in his Windows Vista computer. No joke.

BTW, I still have a small handful of 2.5, 3.5, 5.25, and even a couple of 8.0 inch floppies kicking around.

Scott C.
 
You don't specify if these are double density or high density. But as translucent floppies either were not out there or popular until high density, they are likely high density.

If they are HD, then they aren't worth hardly a thing. High density 3.5" disks are in more abundance than probably any other floppy ever made.

Now if they are double density, they are of use to old Mac collectors (where the oldest macs had 400K single sided double desnity and 800k dual sided double density drives), and Amigas. Probably Atari ST, and other classic computers that used double density 3.5" disks.

GLWTS.
The only different was the extra notch on the side. Put tape over it and reformat it for whatever computer you want. Easy breezy.

Back when the HD diskettes were expensive relative to DD, I did the opposite with both 5.25 and 3.5 inch diskettes by creating the notch myself.

Scott C.
 
The only different was the extra notch on the side. Put tape over it and reformat it for whatever computer you want. Easy breezy.

Back when the HD diskettes were expensive relative to DD, I did the opposite with both 5.25 and 3.5 inch diskettes by creating the notch myself.

Hopefully everyone knows by now, but the magnetic coating is different on HD media, and punched DD disks will fail much faster than genuine HD disks. DD media is more valuable these days, so you're throwing away money for no good reason.

Main issue these days is that DD drives have a hard time reliably reading disks written by consumer high density drives. You can use absoutely blank, brand new media; degauss the disk to completely blank it; or, sometimes, you can format the disk in a DD drive, then write on a HD drive.
 
Wow who knew there was so much to the old floppy back in the day! In looking into the ones I have found they have the following verbiage sort of ghosted into the black dust cover. They are actually IBM formatted 2SHD Hope someone can use them. I am an IT guy and haven't personally used a floppy this size in years. I do know that there are certain games that you can only get going properly with them-that's why I have offered them up here ..

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High density as I suspected.

As previously mentioned, formatting and using a DD disk at HD is not a good idea. But also, using an HD as a DD is not a good idea. The coercivity of the media is higher and needs a stronger magnetic field to properly 'align' the particles. DD heads (and HD heads writing DD) do not write with a high enough magnetic field. It might work, but your data might not survive.

What you have there is name brand HD media. This is better than generic media (most of the time). I'm 'swimming' in used 3.5" HD media.... I wish I could trade most of it for DD media :).

And not to mess up the OPs thread, but while eyes might be here on floppies.... 5.25" had it's own HD, and just like 3.5, you should not write DD to HD media, nor should you write HD to DD media. One thing you can do, is using an HD drive with custom format support, you can do an 80 track DD diskette (due to the narrower heads of an HD 5.25" drive), doubling the capacity of DD media from 360K to 720K. And i you toss an extra sector per track, or 2 if you are lucky, you can boost the capacity to nearly 1M out of a 360K diskette.

In my early PC days I custom formatted media to get more space out of it.

GLWTS OP. Not much demand for HD 3.5" floppy disks though.
 
As usual, opinions and results vary. Geez, if the 3.5 DD are so valuable, somebody make it worth my while to empty a bunch to make them available for sale OR go buy them cheap off of eBay!

Scott C.
 
Just gonna toss them. It cost more to ship and drive to post office time wise than its worth. Thanks for the interesting disk clinic though that is probably the most valuable thing that has transpired here..
 
Just gonna toss them. It cost more to ship and drive to post office time wise than its worth. Thanks for the interesting disk clinic though that is probably the most valuable thing that has transpired here..

LOL OK well if that don't beat all. Glad to see the community spirit is alive and well. You could have offered them as free and pay shipping, my offer would have more than covered that. But just toss them in the trash.....
 
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I'd have to go look since those are not something I've looked at or thought about in a whole lotta years. [emoji16]

Scott C.
 
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