req source: 8 inch diskettes?

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Matthew Montchalin

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Does anybody know where I can get 8 inch wide diskettes? Yeah, I know,
they are pretty rare, but then, where there's a will, there's bound to
be a way.
 
Matthew Montchalin (mmontcha@OregonVOS.net) writes:
Does anybody know where I can get 8 inch wide diskettes? Yeah, I know,
they are pretty rare, but then, where there's a will, there's bound to
be a way.

Surplus stores? That's where I saw some locally about 1995 or so.
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The only 8" I've owned came out of the garbage of a church a couple of
years ago. I hadn't even known they were having a rummage sale, but
afterwards there were various items waiting for the garbage truck,
and there were a bunch of 8" floppies. They'd been used, since they
had writing on them. Made me wish I'd been at the sale, since if
they had those who knows what I missed.

Have you done any websearches, or contacted big computer accesory or
stationary type places? They might be able to special order, at the
very least, if you were desperate enough.

Michael
 
Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote:
Does anybody know where I can get 8 inch wide diskettes?
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There's a blast from the past! I used to be the Kermit 8"
distribution source... 8*) Anyway, googling for "8inch floppy disks"
turns up three hits on the first page:

http://www.athana.com/html/diskette.html
http://www.totalmedia.com/catalog/catalog_home.asp?CatID=1764&OID=-1&CID=&bustype=01
and a teaser to http://www.floppydisks.com/index.html but no 8"
floppies.

--
William Smith
ComputerSmiths Consulting, Inc. www.compusmiths.com
 
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, it was written:
|>Does anybody know where I can get 8 inch wide diskettes?
|
|There's a blast from the past! I used to be the Kermit 8"
|distribution source... 8*) Anyway, googling for "8inch floppy disks"
|turns up three hits on the first page:
|
|http://www.athana.com/html/diskette.html
|http://www.totalmedia.com/catalog/catalog_home.asp?CatID=1764&OID=-1&CID=&bustype=01
|and a teaser to http://www.floppydisks.com/index.html but no 8"
|floppies.

Thanks!
 
"Matthew Montchalin" <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote in message
news:pine.LNX.4.44.0403301826120.17204-100000@lab.oregonvos.net...
Does anybody know where I can get 8 inch wide diskettes? Yeah, I
know,
they are pretty rare, but then, where there's a will, there's bound to
be a way.
Click to expand...
We used to have a bunch of them lying around in some obscure cupboard,
both the single and double density. They were for the ol' IBM
displaywriters, which had the "toaster" on the side, as the ladies used
to call them. ;-)
 
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote:
|> Does anybody know where I can get 8 inch wide diskettes? Yeah, I
|> know, they are pretty rare, but then, where there's a will, there's
|> bound to be a way.
|
|We used to have a bunch of them lying around in some obscure cupboard,
|both the single and double density. They were for the ol' IBM
|displaywriters, which had the "toaster" on the side, as the ladies used
|to call them. ;-)

Do you know if they ever used 8 inch diskettes in Eastern Europe?

Maybe there's a source overseas?
 
On 31 Mar 2004 03:48:15 GMT, et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)
wrote:

Matthew Montchalin (mmontcha@OregonVOS.net) writes:
Does anybody know where I can get 8 inch wide diskettes? Yeah, I know,
they are pretty rare, but then, where there's a will, there's bound to
be a way.

Surplus stores? That's where I saw some locally about 1995 or so.

The only 8" I've owned came out of the garbage of a church a couple of
years ago. I hadn't even known they were having a rummage sale, but
afterwards there were various items waiting for the garbage truck,
and there were a bunch of 8" floppies. They'd been used, since they
had writing on them. Made me wish I'd been at the sale, since if
they had those who knows what I missed.

Have you done any websearches, or contacted big computer accesory or
stationary type places? They might be able to special order, at the
very least, if you were desperate enough.

Michael
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Hi,

Try IBM. They used to sell them not too long ago.

Cheers,
Ian Du Rieu
The Leon Audio Co
http://LeonATdio.com.aT

To reply, replace "T" with "u", twice.
 
"Matthew Montchalin" <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote in message
news:pine.LNX.4.44.0403301826120.17204-100000@lab.oregonvos.net...
Does anybody know where I can get 8 inch wide diskettes? Yeah, I know,
they are pretty rare, but then, where there's a will, there's bound to
be a way.
Click to expand...
UK Military Tech surpless stores. The UK army got rid of millions of these a
while ago.
 
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