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Man seeing some of those disk manufacturers names brings me back to when I used to order bulk purchases of 5.25" floppies from a catalog and sell them at a prof
by dhosek 3y ago
Man seeing some of those disk manufacturers names brings me back to when I used to order bulk purchases of 5.25" floppies from a catalog and sell them at a profit out of my high school locker. And then of course, there was the trick of using a hole punch to add a second write-enable hole to the left side of the disk so you could flip it over and use the back for an extra 140K of storage.
- TMWNN 3y ago>when I used to order bulk purchases of 5.25" floppies from a catalog Imsai!
- dhosek 3y agoThat’s the one! Thanks for coming up with the name.
- b112 3y agoStuff like this makes me think, but with a different view looking back than when I lived through it. For example, the hole punch thing. 10 year old me would have never pondered this, but... was there someone at Stedmans' HQ, wondering why there was an 18% uptick in hole-punch sales? Some old, crusty and cantankerous beatnik squirreled away, staring at sales charts and projections, perplexed as to why? How many households had no hole-punch, but did once the floppy appeared in home?
- oarsinsync 3y agoA lot of houses used paper records and folders to store them in. The folders would often use ring binds that required the papers to be hole punched.
- b112 3y agoSure, agree completely, although I wonder why you believe I may not know that? Yet lots of houses bought pre-punched paper, or just didn't use ring binders. The 18% is just a throw out number, and the concept is a joke, yet... I'm sure there was some increase in hole punch purchases. Because... I bought one as a kid, after getting tired of cutting a ragged hole with scissors.
- dhosek 3y agoThe only pre-punched paper we had when I was a kid was the notebook paper that was a required purchase on the school supply list. I remember using that as a template for punching holes in paper with a hole punch (since the fancy three-hole punch was something that only existed in the admin wing of our high school).
- ikari_pl 3y agoI've been thinking for a few months about a similar write-up about Maxell - I own their cassette tapes, 5.25", 3.5" and 3" floppies, CDs, DVDs, and blu-rays. What a company!