Anything's obtainable as long as you're willing to pay -- and for a large enough run it's even reasonably priced. For example, I'm currently working with a US-based custom rubber parts manufacturer on new tension bands for QIC tapes. Price will be very reasonable but you have to buy 5K-10K at a time if it's an on-shelf item, or 100K at a time if it winds up being custom. It's one of those things where emulation is almost always the cost effective measure, once existing supplies have run out. Thanks, Jonathan On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 2:58 AM, Henry S. Courbis via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
And the only issue is the last known run from Athana was in the mid 90's. Think Tony or someone said this in a previous thread? So even those "new" disks are already 20 years old.
I know the DB19 connector has been remade a few times in the past couple years. So perhaps someone can come up with a way to make the media. The jacket could be paper of course. The media however would most likely need to be plastic and coated however. That's kind of the show stopper as far I know things.
Henry S. Courbis
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On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
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On Jun 8, 2018, at 4:45 PM, systems_glitch via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Hey man, floppies aren't dead! :P But seriously, I have cases of NOS Athana DSDD 5.25" media if people need it.
Nice to see another open source project being made widely available.
Thanks, Jonathan
On Jun 8, 2018, at 4:45 PM, systems_glitch via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Hey man, floppies aren't dead! :P But seriously, I have cases of NOS
Athana
DSDD 5.25" media if people need it.
Nice to see another open source project being made widely available.
Thanks, Jonathan
+1
Currently have 4000 Athana disks in packs of 50.
Athana sold their remaining supply of NOS Floppies to the guy who run floppydisk.com/diskduper.com
That's where my last batch came from. Tony