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Apple "Notebook Disks"

Apple "Notebook Disks" 68k 5 posts May 30, 2015 — May 30, 2015

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#1 Sat, 30 May 2015 - 05:35

Spotted this on ebay.

Apparently they have a special lubricant for reducing friction in low power floppy drives. Ahhhhh marketing.

#2 Sat, 30 May 2015 - 15:22

And that lubricant should be dried out by now! LOL!

#3 Sat, 30 May 2015 - 17:28

In my opinion those should not be used, i will keep the box only for display purposes.

#4 Sat, 30 May 2015 - 18:13

Same, it's not like floppies are rare.

#5 Sat, 30 May 2015 - 23:07

I bought a bunch of these a couple years back locally, for $5 a box.

I use the hell out of them, and I never have any problems. They do seem resistant to develop bad sectors. Newer disks develop bad sectors quickly (modern still made disks). These last quite a long time before they do.

Thats just my personal experience.