[vcf-midatlantic] Museum report

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Dec 30 02:43:25 EST 2015


On 12/06/2015 12:41 AM, Jason Howe wrote:
>>  Further (replying to my own post, I had another thought), be aware
>> that there are new floppy disks being manufactured to this very day,
>> even 8" floppies.  As long as we keep buying them in sufficient volume,
>> someone will keep making them.
>
>     I've suspected much, but do you have a manufacturer or vendor which
> supplies newly manufactured floppies to recommend?  I find a lot of
> exobitantly priced NOS arond, but would be happy to buy something new
> that I might be able to rely on for a couple decades...assuming of
> course that the quality of the new stuff matches that of the old..

  Check out Athana.  They make tapes of various sorts, too, as well as
disk packs for removable hard drives.

  (BTW, someone's clock is set wrong, and I'm quite sure it ain't mine..)

                 -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA



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