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Forums › Offers and Wanted › Hah! Look what I found in the cupboard.... Disks!
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#175619 6-Jul-2015 12:27
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I came across a box of about 30 colored unused 2HD 1.44 floppy discs.
worth? $1? $10 $100?

$6 delivery

Can be used for a wedge to stop a table rocking.

Novelty Coasters

A game of flick across the room into the waste bin All the family can play!

Your kids can hand their homework in on them.

A lot of computers in the south island use them.....




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  #1337757 6-Jul-2015 12:27
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Hey, have you listed a price, location and how much shipping would be to other parts of New Zealand? Also if you are asking for a PM make sure your Privacy settings allow your account to receive PM otherwise people can't contact you. Also note if you are selling something we ask you to offer to other members first. Links to private sales (including Trade Me posts) aren't accepted anymore and will be removed.




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  #1337789 6-Jul-2015 12:35
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Got any 880k ones ? :-p Need some for my Amiga habit.... ;)




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  #1337806 6-Jul-2015 12:58
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Google "floppy disc art", get inspired.



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  #1337808 6-Jul-2015 13:03
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xpd: Got any 880k ones ? :-p Need some for my Amiga habit.... ;)



LOL no sorry




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  #1337858 6-Jul-2015 13:51
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Quite like the coaster idea

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  #1337869 6-Jul-2015 13:57
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Very unrelated to the Post.. but

"Can be used for a wedge to stop a table rocking."

A trick (well it is science) way to fix this is turn a 4 leg table up to 30 Degrees left or right.. it will make it stop rocking :-)

 
 
 
 

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  #1337926 6-Jul-2015 15:06
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Call the museums around the world

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  #1337947 6-Jul-2015 15:27
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I've got some of those. I think they have Windows 3.2 on them.




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  #1337990 6-Jul-2015 16:25
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I remember seeing an 8" floppy disc back in the 1990s. Try sticking one of those in yer shirt pocket. tongue-out

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  #1338210 7-Jul-2015 06:31
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Those coloured ones were my favourite. The artwork is pretty neat.

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  #1338874 7-Jul-2015 20:04
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A number of years ago I nearly got into serious trouble when I called them by the name we used in South Africa: the soft 5.25" was a floppy, the hard 3.5" was a stiffy.  And no one in SA thought anything about calling it a stiffy, because that is what it is, stiff.




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  #1338881 7-Jul-2015 20:17
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xpd: Got any 880k ones ? :-p Need some for my Amiga habit.... ;)



You still use disks with your Amiga??? Gotek/HxC is the way :-)

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  #1339619 9-Jul-2015 03:04
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DarthKermit: I remember seeing an 8" floppy disc back in the 1990s. Try sticking one of those in yer shirt pocket. tongue-out


My sister used to use 12" 360K floppies which were used to back up the HUGE 10MB entire room filling jet engine sounding HDD 

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  #1339623 9-Jul-2015 06:19
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Maybe everything just seemed bigger then :-D. Surely that far back she might have been using punched cards or tape, maybe even magnetic tape.

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  #1339696 9-Jul-2015 09:31
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I used to have an old Philips from the 1970s that my office gave to me when they upgraded. It was cast iron, about the size of a big lathe, weighed a ton, with a huge 7 mb hd behind a transparent shield so you could watch it wind up. It worked but I couldn't figure out how to do anything except boot it up so I just kept it for show. It must have cost a hundred thou when new. An identical model featured in one of the James Bond films.




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