Guest Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 I purchased some 8" floppies not too far away, for some reason I just think they are so cool. 22 of them for only $30, I thought it was decent, seeing as I was bidding on 2 for $20.... Sorry! I would have put this in my other collection but it totally slipped my mind. Hope you guys don't mind... And yes, these are the 8" ones, NOT the 5 1/4" ones! In the last photo I put it next to a 3 1/2" for comparison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draikar Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 They are sure big, I also just got some but the one thing I found out it most of the data from these disks have already have data degradation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jferio Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I've seen disks this size once. When I was taking classes for graphic design ("commercial art" at the time), they had a couple of antiquated imagesetters there that took those disks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I've always thought 8" floppies were cool. It'd be really neat to hook a drive up to a modern computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 I've always thought 8" floppies were cool. It'd be really neat to hook a drive up to a modern computer. Yeah, the 8" drives are insanely expensive though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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