Date   : Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:26:06 +0100
From   : me@... (me@...)
Subject: Re-using floppies

On 12 Oct 2009, at 11:19, Rick Murray wrote:

> What you have to weigh up against is where will you be able to source
> *new* 5.25" discs? It's damn-near impossible to find 3.5" on sale, and
> those drives vanished more recently!

As it happens, I just bought 40 brand new ones (albeit single-sided)  
on eBay.

They seem to turn up fairly regularly there. (Along with double- 
density 3.5" disks, if anyone is interested in those.)

-- 
David Glover
http://www.davidglover.org/