Genuine Vintage Macintosh Floppy Disk Box (empty), $16.14 shipped

[ander]

That's right, folks—now you can own this RARE, highly collectable empty Mac floppy disk box for just $9.99 plus $6.15 shipping!





Includes:

• Bottom of box

• Top of box (removable)

• Interior space in the same shape as 10 genuine 3.5" double-sided Apple Macintosh floppy disks

Adorned with the famous Apple logo, text in the official Apple font, and an artsy-craftsy drop-shadowed 1980s photo of a real floppy!

Impress your friends—make them think you own some of these vintage disks, which are not actually present in the box, but they don't know that, so ha!

Note that only ONE of these highly collectable empty disk boxes is available! So don't miss this one or you'll never find another, as all other known examples contain at least one disk!

[ander]

Please please PLEASE—as many of you as possible, go to that eBay page, click "Ask a Question", and ask the seller, "Does this include any disks?"

[jdcarpe]

Hmmm, was my copy of Windows 3.1 on floppy more than 10 disks? I seem to remember it was. So that's no good. And forget about Visual Basic -- that was on like 30 floppies. It's a nice box for floppies, but all my old text files I downloaded from BBSes are long lost.

[sethk_]

This would be a cool parts storage thing if you needed to store some kbd parts

[ed_avis]

Love that they call them 'double sided disks'.  That is meaningless for 3.5inch floppies.

[ander]

Have any of you asked the seller yet if it included any disks? I was completely serious. I think it'd be hilarious if a bunch of us did that.

[Touch_It]

There is probably someone who has been looking for this for 20 years and had a heart attack when he saw it.

[jdcarpe]

Love that they call them 'double sided disks'.  That is meaningless for 3.5inch floppies.

Well, that's true because there were no single sided 3.5" floppies. But I think it was for marketing purposes when the 3.5s first came out, to let people know the capacity was going to be at least as good as a 360kB DS/DD 5.25" floppy. And of course, it was actually double that.

Did anyone ever try the "hole" mod, where you drilled a hole in the left side of a HD 3.5" floppy, so that you could format it to 2.88MB instead of 1.44MB? I tried it, and I remember that I found one disk which was actually reliable like that. The rest corrupted after writing data to them. It was really cool to have that one 2.88MB floppy, though.

[Snowdog993]

Love that they call them 'double sided disks'.  That is meaningless for 3.5inch floppies.

Well, that's true because there were no single sided 3.5" floppies. But I think it was for marketing purposes when the 3.5s first came out, to let people know the capacity was going to be at least as good as a 360kB DS/DD 5.25" floppy. And of course, it was actually double that.

Did anyone ever try the "hole" mod, where you drilled a hole in the left side of a HD 3.5" floppy, so that you could format it to 2.88MB instead of 1.44MB? I tried it, and I remember that I found one disk which was actually reliable like that. The rest corrupted after writing data to them. It was really cool to have that one 2.88MB floppy, though.

Actually, it was conversion of a 720kb floppy into a 1.44mb floppy.  I actually had a punch that I purchased to do this.  It worked fine.  The price difference wasn't that much after a bit of time, and the 720k went by the wayside.
Be that as it may, yes I did do that.

[Touch_It]

I find old hardware hacks very fascinating

[0100010]

I seem to recall having to scotch tape over a cutout on a 5.25" floppy to write protect it.

[jdcarpe]

Love that they call them 'double sided disks'.  That is meaningless for 3.5inch floppies.

Well, that's true because there were no single sided 3.5" floppies. But I think it was for marketing purposes when the 3.5s first came out, to let people know the capacity was going to be at least as good as a 360kB DS/DD 5.25" floppy. And of course, it was actually double that.

Did anyone ever try the "hole" mod, where you drilled a hole in the left side of a HD 3.5" floppy, so that you could format it to 2.88MB instead of 1.44MB? I tried it, and I remember that I found one disk which was actually reliable like that. The rest corrupted after writing data to them. It was really cool to have that one 2.88MB floppy, though.

Actually, it was conversion of a 720kb floppy into a 1.44mb floppy.  I actually had a punch that I purchased to do this.  It worked fine.  The price difference wasn't that much after a bit of time, and the 720k went by the wayside.
Be that as it may, yes I did do that.

Ah yes, you're right. We did that to save money, before High Density floppies became ubiquitous.

[rowdy]

I seem to recall having to scotch tape over a cutout on a 5.25" floppy to write protect it.

And cutting an equivalent notch out of the other side of the disk so you can flip it over and use both sides.

[ander]

I feel like I've wandered into an accountants' convention.