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    Default Sealed 5 1/4 inch Floppy Disks for sale.

    Greetings Programs.

    Didn't want to trash these until I found out if anybody needed any. I have about a dozen sealed boxes of old single sided double density 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. 10 disks per box. A few that were open show the disks in great shape after 20 years

    I was using these for an Atari 8 bit computer with a happy drive 1050. And an IBM PC/jr. Should work with any 80's floppy drive.

    Remember when these sold for $21.99 for a box?

    I also have a few dozen 5 1/2 high density disks that are sealed in single disk packs.

    Even a few quad density 96 tpi disks left if any of you have a DEC Rainbow.

    PM if interested. The boxes can go media mail. Single disks should be about a buck to ship.

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    How much are diskets work now? Like .25 per box? Just wondering, my dad threw away a whole crapload of used once a few years ago. I remember the boxes being like 10 bucks jsut a fwe years ago.
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    Default Re: Sealed 5 1/4 inch Floppy Disks for sale.

    Quote Originally Posted by charitycasegreg
    How much are diskets work now? Like .25 per box? Just wondering, my dad threw away a whole crapload of used once a few years ago. I remember the boxes being like 10 bucks jsut a fwe years ago.
    Back in 1985 the first box of 10 floppy disks cost me $19.99 at a Clover store.

    Strangely, a package arrived at my work a month later with an unknown persons name on it. It was from a floppy disk company. When my bos opened it we found it was a disk notcher to make single sided floppied work double sided. My boss said I could have it. I thought I hit paydirt because I could double the disks I had. Over the years they came down to about 18 or 15 cents a disk in bulk.

    on eBay now they go for about a buck for 50 with 5 dollars shipping.

    Sad...

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    I can remember when a buck a disk was a good deal. Usually boxes of 10 were $12 or so, if you could find a box of 10 for $10 you would snag it. Later I remember finding bulk deals, like ordering a hundred for $65 but without paper sleeves, and my and my friends would cut our own out of notebook paper and make them.

    1986 and 1987, my parents ran a computer store and I remember my parents would buy ten packs of diskettes bulk for $5 and would sell them for $7.50 blank, or loaded with PD Software for $10.

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