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Control Data Corporation floppies.

Control Data Corporation floppies.

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[–] • 3 pts

I have some new in the box. I get a call every once in a while from someone who hear my name from someone who knew me somewhere and they NEED some 5 1/4 disks.

Some people think they are free, and they are not.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

5 1/4 were the newer, smaller size (that held the same or more amount of data). These guys made hats out of the older 8" versions. Yeah, 40+ year old technology.

[–] • 6 pts

I sold all of my 8" disks. Those went for some cash.

[–] • 3 pts

Lol! Hard to believe anyone is still using old systems with those drives. That was one of my projects almost 40 years ago, set up a central loader (network to reliable DEC VAX file storage) to eliminate the old floppy storage and drives on our cp/m-86 based test systems, other systems that used data cassette storage and others that used mag tape storage.