dontasciime Posted October 6, 2006 Posted October 6, 2006 Anyone know where in UK i can buy these ? Thanks Have tried a few online retailers and ebay but no luck.
spinningwheel Posted October 7, 2006 Posted October 7, 2006 dontasciime; The best I could find is the fact that IBM tried to make 2.88 a standard and it bombed. Their site no longer offers them for sale so I would imagine you'll need a legacy retailer and you'll pay out the wazoo for the discs. I did find a retailer, who also had a broken link to the discs here in the States, but they were advertised at $76.00 American for 3 discs...musta been a 1985 pricing thing.... How did you come by a 2.88 drive? Picking through the boneyard?
dontasciime Posted October 8, 2006 Author Posted October 8, 2006 (edited) Bought it brand new for ?6.99 at ukdvdr. Had a feeling finding that size floppy would be a pain in the rrrr's, but recently had a program creating boot up disc's on 2 floppies and would have gotten away with it on one of these disc's if i had floppy capable of storing to 2.88 and a disc. I normally pay ?3.08 for a standard 1.44 floppy drive and in past i have paid more than 6.99 for 1.44 floppy drive and i needed a new one anyways as the one in this comp is broken, sometimes it insists the floppy i have in is unformatted when i know for a fact its got files on it. Well now i do as the first couple of times it did that i thought umm must have wrong disc in and formatted it and lost stuff. Will keep on looking ebay will turn up some eventually. Thanks Edited October 8, 2006 by dontasciime
polopony Posted October 9, 2006 Posted October 9, 2006 found this on EBAY they're out of Canada BRAND NEW Dysan MF2ED 2.88 MB floppy disks (Pack of 10) C $11.25 C $10.13 also ebay 2.88 blank ed discs free shipping 10 pack/$10 mpadams@pacifier.com
JasonFriday13 Posted October 9, 2006 Posted October 9, 2006 Thats a bit weird, I was just looking up the history of the floppy disk today on wikipedia (who knows why).
dontasciime Posted October 9, 2006 Author Posted October 9, 2006 this is a really old thread from sombody who bought more than he could use ,its worth an Emailwww.knowlton_at_muse.calarts.edu this page loading for anyone, my internet is shite at the minute though.
polopony Posted October 9, 2006 Posted October 9, 2006 its not loading ,like I said it was really old Im just going to delete it, got your message one of those sites has 100 of the 2.88's
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