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Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes

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On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Ian McCall wrote:

> On 2015-11-13 16:01:46 +0000, philo <philo@privacy.net> said:
>
>> Are those 5.25" floppies going to be next?
>
> I hope not - I still use them for my C64...
>
When this has come up elsewhere, I think the answer has been that
they can be had, but you have to deal with specific places.  So don't
expect to be able to get them at your local drugstore (where they no 
longer even mention blank VHS tapes anymore), but out there there is a 
stock of new old stock floppies, but 5.25 and 3.5.

They were making so many, and there was a slow decline, that probably 
stockpiling meant saving a few days of production, or something like that, 
even if they aren't still being made (I have no idea).

Maybe ten years ago, I ended up with a box of 25 and then 50 3.5" 
floppies,  both really good deals in a flyer.  I wouldn't have bought at
25 if I'd known a few weeks later that I could get fifty for not much 
more.  But that was about the point where I stopped using them for 
anything much, so most of that stock is available.

I also consolidated various floppies, and in some cases moved the contents 
to some other medium, releasing a bunch of others.  So if I really needed 
floppies, I'm probably okay. I don't have as many spare 5.25" floppies, 
but I stopped using those at the end of 1993, so chances are good that's 
not going to rise up again.  On the other hand, I have kept 5.25" floppy 
drives around, just in case.

   Michael

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[CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-11-12 19:21 +0000
  Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-11-12 21:32 +0000
    Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-11-12 21:51 +0000
      Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-11-12 22:14 +0000
      Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-13 12:57 +0100
        Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-11-13 16:05 +0300
  Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-11-13 10:01 -0600
    Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2015-11-13 16:08 +0000
      Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-11-13 12:54 -0500
        Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-11-13 22:25 -0600

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