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maestro
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 727 |
floppy disks
hi
does anyone know of a good place to buy some blank 5.25 inch floppies??
i cant really find any anywhere except ebay and they wont ship to the uk :( |
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Graham
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Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990 |
All of my 199x 3.5" HD disks which are DD formatted still work, while all 5.25" HD disks failed after minutes/hours. I remember when Smash Designs copied their demo on HD disks and gave those to people on a party, I could load the demo from such a disk on the party but when I arrived home, the disk was empty.
When it comes to nowadays 3.5" disks: Most of them are crap, but even more important: Those 20 EUR disk drives are REAL crap and destroy disks quite fast. |
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Devia
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 401 |
heh.. yeah I learned about the 5.25" HD issue the hard way myself ;-)
Actually all my 3.5" DD formatted disks are still working perfectly, both DD and HDs. So maybe it was just back when I frequently wrote them that they got busted.
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Inge
Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 144 |
Quote: hi
does anyone know of a good place to buy some blank 5.25 inch floppies??
i cant really find any anywhere except ebay and they wont ship to the uk :(
A quick googling revealed the following sites:
http://www.retrotrader.com/
http://www.oldsoftware.com/floppy_disks.html
http://www.mfarris.com/
The last site actually sells MANY different types.
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
You know, 5.25" floppies make great cd cases :) |
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Tch
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Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 512 |
Quote: You know, 5.25" floppies make great cd cases :)
LOL! 8D |
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Nafcom
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 588 |
Quote: 5.25" HD disks are very different to 5.25" DD disks, you cannot use a DD drive for writing HD disks since they need a twice as strong magnetic field from the drive.
Btw, this is different for 3.5" disks though. There you can use HD disks in DD drives since the difference between HD and DD is much smaller.
"Btw, this is different for 3.5" disks though"
Not really, for many HD 3.5" disks don't work on 1581 e.g.
Tried it with mine. DD 3.5" work perfect though, but they are not easy to find (in Germany at least). |
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
Here ya go..
www.mainstreetcomputers.net
Leave Feedback to Obet, let him know Eric sent ya..
He just came across several hundred 5.25" |
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
I guess I should have mentioned he'll ship oversea's as well.
I think he's also selling a couple ntsc c-64 setup's. |
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markus sinalco
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Registered: Sep 2005
Posts: 112 |
@maestro
Try go64.de thats a German site. They got pretty good
5.25 DD Disks. 3 Euros per 10. Maybe they ship to GB !?
Dont use HDs, they need a higher magnetig level and
will loose data ! .. Good Luck |
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Nafcom
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 588 |
Quote: @maestro
Try go64.de thats a German site. They got pretty good
5.25 DD Disks. 3 Euros per 10. Maybe they ship to GB !?
Dont use HDs, they need a higher magnetig level and
will loose data ! .. Good Luck
Yes, they also ship to abroad Germany |
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