New to me, but for you technical curmudgeons: FloppyDisk.com

[Zoidberg]

https://www.floppydisk.com

Buys new/unused disks; also recycles used (formats where viable & resells) floppies.

Also sells both regular and low/double density Mac disks.

Also offers transfer services for individual floppies/disks to thumb drive.

A neat resource to bookmark for possible future needs.

[rz]

I still have a few old floppy drives with stuff on them, but I figure that I've gone about 20 years since I was able to read them. I figure if I've survived this long without knowing what's on them, I probably don't really need them anymore.

[msglee]

Got a bunch of zip disks around here.

[ArtP]

Wow....

3.5" MacIntosh 1.44 formatted DS/HD

"1.44 HIGH DENSITY"

$14.95

IS THAT EACH???

Remember when Microcenter or was it CompUSA or Circuit City gave you a Floppy disk per month for FREE yo get you in the store?

Remember when AOL floppies were FREE for the taking?

[SDGuy]

msglee wrote:
Got a bunch of zip disks around here.

:agree:

[NewtonMP2100]

…..have touched so many…..floppy….disks….

[ka jowct]

msglee wrote:
Got a bunch of zip disks around here.

Same.

I also have a large, colorful button for the infamous Castlewood Orb that I acquired at a MacWorld Expo. The button is the closest I came to having one of those drives.

The Orb

[testcase]

rz wrote:
I still have a few old floppy drives with stuff on them, but I figure that I've gone about 20 years since I was able to read them. I figure if I've survived this long without knowing what's on them, I probably don't really need them anymore.

Are you sure that none of your crypto currency passwords are on those disks? ;-)

[Zoidberg]

ka jowct wrote:
[quote=msglee]
Got a bunch of zip disks around here.

Same.

I also have a large, colorful button for the infamous Castlewood Orb that I acquired at a MacWorld Expo. The button is the closest I came to having one of those drives.

The Orb
I was a big fan of the Castlewood Orb back when it was a thing. I know I had at least two drives and a handful of disks (which moved from my home office to a work location). I want to say that was before I went to MO disks, but the Orb might have been my last external removable b'f I switched to external drives -- and probably right around when I got my first OWC On The Go external.

And if you really want to lose some time researching old media, I'd head over to the Museum of Obsolete Data. Nerd that I am, I'll peruse that site for far too long.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

rz wrote:
I still have a few old floppy drives with stuff on them, but I figure that I've gone about 20 years since I was able to read them. I figure if I've survived this long without knowing what's on them, I probably don't really need them anymore.

Years Decades ago, I transferred any files I wanted to keep that were on floppy disks over to a backup HDD (and later, Dropbox). There weren't many, and I got rid of a few as time passed - I think the only ones I have left are related to my ME senior project.

Ironically, I am unable to open those files, as the current versions of the MS Office apps used to create the files no longer support the older file formats.