Date   : Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:53:38 +0100
From   : john.abbey@... (John Abbey)
Subject: New 5.25" media in UK?

Hi All,

During a clear-out of one of our stores recently, we found two cartons of 
diskettes - ten boxes per carton as I recall.  As a joke the lads put them 
on my desk under the dellusion I'd say "not even *I* want them"...  I 
suspect what happened was someone ordered some diskettes back in 1998 (the 
date on the cartons) and accidentally ordered 5.25" instead of 3.5" and was 
too embarrassed to say anything or send them back to the supplier.

Strangely, two boxes were HD's, but the other 18 are DSDD, 48tpi.  In the 
spirit of Sharing the Wealth, if anyone wants any, PM me and I'll send them 
for the price of the postage - I'll find out what that is if anyone's 
interested.

All brand new and sealed, 10 diskettes per box.  Brand is 3M Imation.  I'd 
eBay them, but for the 99p a box I'd get for them I just can't be bothered.

Regards,
JohnA.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Flynn G7OCD" <flynnjs@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:49 PM
Subject: [BBC-Micro] New 5.25" media in UK?


>
> I'm currently going on a rescue mission with my Beeb.
> Last week's job as to stop the PSU smoking :-)
> Gingerly popping my 25year old media into the drive
> has revealed that most of the discs are still readable
> but I suspect that they will delaminate very quickly
> so I'm keen to get some brand new media and rescue
> what I can.
>
> I'm looking for a reasonably priced supplier of DSDD
> 96tpi discs. Not been able to find alot, can anyone
> help?
>
> Worst case, I'll migrate to 3.5" but I don't currently
> have a 3.5" drive.
>
> TIA,
>  Jason
>
>
>
>
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