RetroHacker
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While I do collect console video games and arcade machines, my primary hobby, for a long time, has been collecting old computers. The hobbies are interrelated - as video games were my first exposure to computers (my first computer was an Atari 130xe). And, of course, the same processors used in arcade games often were used in comptuers...
Anyway, I digress. lately I've noticed that I'm running low on blank floppies. Someting I thought would never happen. You see, many years ago, I acquired a couple huge boxes of the things. "I'll never use all those", I thought. Which, while true, isn't the problem. Recently, I started using disks from the second box. Unfortunately, it seems that before I owned them, they were stored improperly. Just about all of them are useless - media degredation, warped disks, mildew on the disk media, etc. Looks like they must have been in an attic, or, more likely, a boiler room (these came from a school).
So, anyone some floppies laying around? I can use both DS/DD and DS/HD. I'm really just looking for the usual assortment of used disks - not sealed boxes or anything fancy.
And, of course, I'm always looking for old computers/parts if anyone has some junk that needs a home...
-Ian
Anyway, I digress. lately I've noticed that I'm running low on blank floppies. Someting I thought would never happen. You see, many years ago, I acquired a couple huge boxes of the things. "I'll never use all those", I thought. Which, while true, isn't the problem. Recently, I started using disks from the second box. Unfortunately, it seems that before I owned them, they were stored improperly. Just about all of them are useless - media degredation, warped disks, mildew on the disk media, etc. Looks like they must have been in an attic, or, more likely, a boiler room (these came from a school).
So, anyone some floppies laying around? I can use both DS/DD and DS/HD. I'm really just looking for the usual assortment of used disks - not sealed boxes or anything fancy.
And, of course, I'm always looking for old computers/parts if anyone has some junk that needs a home...
-Ian