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Ellie!

I just had a rummage around in a big box o’ random crap I’ve got in the spare room as it occurred to me that I used to have a Zip drive and thought it might be in there. Alas, no, but I did find some of my old Zip disks, plus some other random bits and bobs.

I found my old joysticks for my Commodore Plus/4 (very un-ergonomic, I never liked using them even back in the day), the A520 modulator for my Amiga 500 (haven’t needed to use that in ages!), a seemingly unopened floppy head cleaners for both 3 1/2” and 5 1/4” drives (I’ve never even owned a 5 1/4” drive, so that’ll remain unused) and, the bit I’m most looking forward to delving into, 6 CDs worth of audio samples. There must be at least some useful sounds in that lot I can use!

I’m sure I’ve still got that Zip drive *somewhere*, I seriously doubt I’d have chucked it. I bloody hope not anyway.

A photo of two dark grey Commodore branded joysticks. The handles are very straight, leaning forward, with a single red button on the top. They were never great to use.
A photo of four Zip disk boxes, with Fujifilm-branded inlays. The contents are 100mb Zip disks.
A photo of some CDs containing a load of audio samples. In the left is eJay Sound Collection #2 which contains 7,500 sounds in wave format across 4 discs. On the right is, at the top, is Shareware Universe’s Universe of Sounds containing thousands of MIDI, wav, mod and voc files, and below it, The Ded Good Music Library’s Techno-file CD.
A photo of a Maxell branded set of floppy head cleaners for both 3 1/2” and 5 1/4” drives plus some cleaning fluid, which I imagine would be useless now. Next to it is a TV modulator for the Amiga 500, a long beige box.
#ZipDisk#Commodore#Maxell
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Hey folks, spotted a bundle of New, Blank, & Sealed IBM Formatted Zip 100MB Disks on Goodwill's auction site. Current bid's at $16, with the auction closing on April 21st. Looks like 12 of them if I’m counting right, which would put them currently about $2 / disk wish shipping. Depending on where it lands might be a great find for anyone needing zip 100 media for data transfer on retro machines. Check it out here: shopgoodwill.com/Item/19664610 #GoodWill #auction #retrocomputing #ZipDisk

shopgoodwill.comUsed New, Blank, & Sealed Ibm Formatted Zip 100mb Disks Bundle | ShopGoodwill.com
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