On Sat, 31 May 2008 00:36:07 -0400, the renowned Gerald Miller
wrote:

On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:41:02 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Vaughn Simon wrote:

"Dave August" wrote in message
...
Just thought one of you guys running an OOOLLLDDD Dos box as a CNC thingie and
already had a drive might want the disks for the price of shipping...

Yep, you never know. Just a couple years ago, I was hunting down 5.25"
floppy drives on E-Bay and was glad to find them. They were the only thing that
would work in our old Siemens phone switches. We had an old DOS machine with a
bit copier (so that we could copy backup floppys) that I wouldn't have sold for
$10,000.


I still have at least 50 5.25" drives if you need any more.
Junior had a client to whom I was able to provide a couple of the
lower density 3.5" drives - the equipment couldn't handle the 1.44 meg
drives. Older welding robots also needed the lower density.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

An instructor at a college told me that replacement 3.5"
floppies for one of their VMC machines cost something like $2K each.
Visually identical to the $15 variety. Maybe that's the difference.

They have a crude network hacked together for downloading programs
from a central modern computer (which will take thumb drives or
whatever), so it's not a priority for them.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
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