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Title: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: amiadudeorwat on May 18, 2017, 11:47:46 PM
What is the rarest write protect tab on a floppy you've ever seen?  We all know the mundane and plain blue or black tabs on a blue or black floppy.  Or even the shameful piece of electrical tape or bandage tape or worse yet just a crumpled bit of white paper shoved in the hole.  I remember some floppy that was Green plastic and had a White write protect tab.  What's more rare than that if it exists?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: kirk_m on May 19, 2017, 01:39:56 AM
Quote from: amiadudeorwat;825969
What is the rarest write protect tab on a floppy you've ever seen?  We all know the mundane and plain blue or black tabs on a blue or black floppy.  Or even the shameful piece of electrical tape or bandage tape or worse yet just a crumpled bit of white paper shoved in the hole.  I remember some floppy that was Green plastic and had a White write protect tab.  What's more rare than that if it exists?  Thanks.


The last one is worth about $14,000 today!  I had three copies of that game back in the day!  I can't believe I gave it all away!:rofl:
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: pyrre on May 19, 2017, 11:42:07 AM
Quote from: kirk_m;825973
The last one is worth about $14,000 today!  I had three copies of that game back in the day!  I can't believe I gave it all away!:rofl:
what are you talking about. what did i miss?
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on May 19, 2017, 01:09:49 PM
Quote from: pyrre;825983
what are you talking about. what did i miss?


I was going to go with "this thread is just here to mock all of the other ridiculous threads that dude 'fondpondforever' creates". :lol:

Eh. A joke is a lot less funny when you have to explain it. *shrug*
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: pyrre on May 19, 2017, 01:57:32 PM
Quote from: Oldsmobile_Mike;825986
I was going to go with "this thread is just here to mock all of the other ridiculous threads that dude 'fondpondforever' creates". :lol:

Eh. A joke is a lot less funny when you have to explain it. *shrug*
hmmmm.....
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: LoadWB on May 19, 2017, 03:45:15 PM
Quote from: pyrre;825987
hmmmm.....


I dunno, Mike.  This seems like a legitimate inquiry.
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: dovegrace on May 19, 2017, 06:53:55 PM
I probably have dozens, perhaps hundreds, of rare floppy/write-protect combinations (from years of hoarding) in my basement, if I could be bothered to look...  ;)
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: amiadudeorwat on May 20, 2017, 12:12:38 AM
Quote from: dovegrace;826001
I probably have dozens, perhaps hundreds, of rare floppy/write-protect combinations (from years of hoarding) in my basement, if I could be bothered to look...  ;)

Pics or it didn't happen.  :hammer:
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: dovegrace on May 20, 2017, 12:27:55 AM
Quote from: amiadudeorwat;826012
Pics or it didn't happen.  :hammer:


Please don't make me go down there.  The last time I went down there, I found a bunch of Xenix 386 stuff and nobody saw me for weeks...
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: psxphill on May 20, 2017, 08:32:06 AM
Quote from: amiadudeorwat;825969
What is the rarest write protect tab on a floppy you've ever seen?


http://imgur.com/N06AP1R
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: amiadudeorwat on May 20, 2017, 12:42:02 PM
Quote from: psxphill;826025
http://imgur.com/N06AP1R

That is a truly rare bigly'ed floppy!
Title: Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
Post by: paul1981 on May 20, 2017, 10:58:48 PM
My Lotus Esprit disk is green. Is that worth thousands of smackers?