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My first stab at being an entrepreneur was buying normal 3.5" disks, stamping holes in them and selling them as pristine 3.5" HD disks. Let's just say it was l
by jefffoster 16y ago
My first stab at being an entrepreneur was buying normal 3.5" disks, stamping holes in them and selling them as pristine 3.5" HD disks. Let's just say it was less successful than I'd hoped.
- zandorg 16y agoI did this on an Acorn Archimedes disk and though okay at first, the floppy got corrupted after a few days. Bad idea!
- waqf 16y agoThe Archimedes would format any floppy to any density, so you didn't need the hole punch.
- zandorg 16y agoMy point was that formatting a 800kb disk to 1600kb (as you could on the Archimedes) is likely to - and in my experience has - corrupt after a few days of use, and thus is not worth the amount of money saved. Luckily it was just copied games that got corrupted, but it could have been worse.
- yardie 16y agoMy first stab at being an entrepreneur was buying up used floppies for pennies slapping a blank label on them and selling them for $1 a piece. But I was a pushover so most people could bargain me down to $2-3 for a pack of five.