Date   : Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:07:38 +0100
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: Re-using floppies

In article <alpine.WNT.2.00.1004171936440.2596@...>, Anders
Carlsson <anders.carlsson@...> writes

>I have two. Actually those sell on eBay for non-trivial money, so if
>noone else wants it, you could try to flog it on the 'Bay before you
>bin it.

Ooh, thanks for the heads-up.  Will take a look.  Who would have thought
they were still in demand?

Just tried to search for them without success using the searvh terms
"floppy disk hole punch", "5.25 hole punch" and "hole punch" and got
nowhere.  Which category do they usually appear in?

> I have witnessed several auctions end at relatively perverse
>amounts of money. Go look yourself if you don't believe it.

Oh, I believe it.  Have been decrapifying and put some stuff up which
sold for decent money.  Best was an AMD X2 4800+ socket 939 processor
which sold for 90 quid (socket 939 was short-lived and this was the
ultimate upgrade for it.)  Replaced with a single-core 4000+ which feels
just as quick.

But Ebay fees are too high, I think.  Not only do they charge for
inserting a listing, they take 10% ish of the final sale value.

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