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I used to do this all the time back in the day. I also used to buy floppies in bulk from some mail order catalog and re-sell them at a profit from my high schoo
by dhosek 7y ago
I used to do this all the time back in the day. I also used to buy floppies in bulk from some mail order catalog and re-sell them at a profit from my high school locker.
- ghaff 7y agoAt the risk of showing my age, I did that in business school. There was a period when you could buy floppies in bulk and pricing was maybe 10-20% what they were by ones or twos in the campus store. Someone else started this first but the floppies they were selling were crap so... This was also a period when I earned money working in the school's computer lab to help students and there was more than one occasion where a student had their semester of work on a floppy and they bent it or otherwise made it difficult to read though I could usually get most of their info off.
- ryandrake 7y agoSame here. I get the feeling this was a pretty common hobby. I would also pre-format them and charge a little extra. If you could afford to buy a batch of a thousand or so unformatted single sided floppies, doubling their capacity and formatting them, you could make some pocket change.
- legohead 7y agohow many kids had computers? when I was in HS I was using 3.5" floppy and there were only a handful of us that had computers...