Posted by TonyP on 12/23/00 11:27

doc wrote:

> wow! a 5 mb drive. that is soooooo cooooool :o) i rememember those big
> ole floppys that i used in my trs80 (that's the way i went, my son went the
> c64 route) and to think that that 5 1/4" could hold a whopping 160kb and
> when i got converted to dual sided it was 320kb. eGADS! i now have
> pictures that wouldn't fit on the dual sided one :o)

Yes, 5megs when the 5.25" floppies held like 170k. The cost for the 9060
(which wasn't new) was $450.

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