Modern floppy disk question...

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

Tony Duell said:
> > 
> > 
> > Anyone know why modern floppy disks are such total junk? They seem to
> 
> Yes, they're too damn cheap....
> 
> I can rememebr paying \pounds 3.00 for a 5.25" floppy disk. One disk, not 
> a box of 10. My old model 1 stored 88K on such a disk. And those disks 
> are still readable 20+ years later.
> 

Back in the mid '80s I got fed up with the high price charged for
floppies in the shops and started to bulk-buy them.  To make up 
sufficently large orders to get a decent discount I started to sell 
them locally to various users, including a school.  I bought "noname"
disks in thousands and repackaged them in tens and sold them with a
lifetime no-quibble guarantee, if one failed I'd replace it.  I never
got any returns, so they were probably pretty reliable.

I'm still using some of the disks and the lockable disk boxes my supplier 
threw in as freebies...

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Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

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