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 American recycler says he sells 500 floppy disks a day
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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 11:21:59 PM on 2 November 2022.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KspNLO9i9g

Earlier in the year I needed floppy disks to do a backup of the configuration of a 20 year old digital organ. Not trusting what was being flogged locally, I bought a new box of Laser brand disks from Japan.

Having successfully retrieved the data, I copied it to hard drive via a USB-connected floppy drive on my PC.
 
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Floppies tended to be garbage toward the end of their reign. We take USB keys for granted these days as a portable medium with reliability. Back in the day I only ever used Nashua branded discs. They held data well.

The amusing thing is, 1.2MB of data back then was considered huge.


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How about the original 8" single sided, probably only held 500k.
 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 4 · Written at 5:00:06 PM on 4 November 2022.
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How about the original 8" single sided,

Capacities of the varieties here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats#DEC_8-inch_formats

Formats here: https://retrocmp.de/fdd/8inch/ss-ds-flippy.htm
 
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Whilst 5" Floppy disks are still getable. Don't know their condition but I have a reasonable sized box of NOS.
 
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