40 Floppy disks for...

[HELLO2234]

Hi. I would like to play a little game. I recently bought a floppy disk case. Inside were 40 5.25 inch floppy disks and 1 3.5 inch diskette. How much did I pay?

Thanks and have fun!

 

[HELLO2234]

BTW, if you like older tech like this, here are some YouTube channels to search for:Technology Connections, Techmoan, and The 8-Bit Guy.

 

[Tha fios agaibh]

You had to pay?

 

[HELLO2234]

I bought it at a thrift store. They are VEEERY old and kinda rare.

 

[HELLO2234]

Check out my other thread.I just joined about 30minutes ago. I had other accounts, but i kinda sorta lost the info.

 

[HELLO2234]

i put a reply for the amount on your page. I won't be back on until tomorrow at least.

 

[AnalogKid]

How much did I pay?

Too much.

ak

 

[hevans1944]

I bought it at a thrift store. They are VEEERY old and kinda rare.

The lubricant on the disks inside has probably turned into a viscous goo. I would be very surprised if any of the disks would spin up, much less be readable and writable. I tried to recover some ancient disks I had by soaking them in isopropyl alcohol overnight and then re-lubricating their surfaces with a cotton ball soaked in light mineral oil. I don't remember whether or not that worked, but it would have been a wasted effort as any data present was put there by programs that I no longer have. Still, I have some floppy disk drives laying around in my junque box, just waiting for an opportunity to do something... anything. And I have hundreds of floppy disks of various sizes and formats stashed away too. That's how I learned that the disk lubricant turns into goo after a few years.

 

[Bluejets]

I ripped the motor and driver out of a 5.25 FDD and used it to drive the feed screw on my model engine cam grinder I built about 25 years ago, then re-built after the 2013 flood.
That's about the only memory it has left.

 

[shrtrnd]

I found a box of about 200 floppies my oldest kid left here when he moved out.
I asked him if he wanted them, because he used to store a lot of information on them when he was younger.
He asked me what he might want them for, seeing as to how he'd have difficulty finding a drive to use them.
Interesting to hear that they had a lube inside them that hardens.
Maybe I can use them for drink coasters?

 

[hevans1944]

Maybe I can use them for drink coasters?

Isn't that what the pop-out CD ROM thingy is used for (with or without a CD ROM laying in the tray)? Hmmm. Of course that limits you to just one beverage container per CD ROM drive, a bit of a cramp if hosting a party... yeah, use them floppy disk thingies as drink coasters!

 

[Bluejets]

When learning to fly over 50 years ago, 1/2 hour was spent before flight watching a type of record that played on a large av cabinet. May have been a cd forerunner like the dragons lair laser disc.
Anyhow it was later transferred to 3.5 fdd which I still have copies and run occasionally.
Quite a powerful simulator which allows for selection of waypoints, weather conditions, day or night flying with actual local airports data and details available. Still works ok on the fdd in my milling machine with windows 98 that I use for the DRO I made.
No work gets done though at that time.

 

[HELLO2234]

Hevans1944, the disks that I have tried do spin up, however, I cannot read or write them because the computer I am using is only 15 years old, not old enough to recognize a 5.25 drive.

 

[HELLO2234]

to anyone who wants to know, the people at the thrift stor must have not known what they were selling. They only cost $1 for 40!

 

[Tha fios agaibh]

to anyone who wants to know, the people at the thrift stor must have not known what they were selling. They only cost $1 for 40!

So, what are you going to do with them?

Sort of reminds me of when my wife comes home from shopping with something useless:
Me: "do we need it?"
Her: "No, but it was on sale!"

 

[hevans1944]

... Sort of reminds me of when my wife comes home from shopping with something useless:
Me: "do we need it?"
Her: "No, but it was on sale!"

Me: "Well of course it was on sale! It's shoplifting if you walk out with it without paying for it!"

 

[Bluejets]

Wife of a mate of mine came in one day saying she had made $50 for the day.
AS she had not worked a day in her life we just had to ask..........
Turns out she had been on a spending (or rather sale ) spree.
She says" I saved $10 on this and so much on that etc... which all together adds up to $50 I made for the day."

Sad thing is technically she was correct if the wording changed a little to "made in savings".

 

[kellys_eye]

to anyone who wants to know, the people at the thrift stor must have not known what they were selling. They only cost $1 for 40!

They didn't see you coming - they sent for you.

Getting $1 for something worth nothing is an achievement in itself.

 

[HELLO2234]

Once I can build/buy a 486 computer or the like, I will use them a lot.

 

[HELLO2234]

Some of the disks included were windows 3.1 and MS-DOS.