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Offline amiadudeorwatTopic starter

Rarest Write Protect Tab
« 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.
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Offline kirk_m

Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2017, 01:39:56 AM »
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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:
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Offline pyrre

Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2017, 11:42:07 AM »
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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?
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2017, 01:09:49 PM »
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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*
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Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2017, 01:57:32 PM »
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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.....
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Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2017, 03:45:15 PM »
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hmmmm.....


I dunno, Mike.  This seems like a legitimate inquiry.
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Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #6 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...  ;)
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Offline amiadudeorwatTopic starter

Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2017, 12:12:38 AM »
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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:
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Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2017, 12:27:55 AM »
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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...
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Offline psxphill

Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2017, 08:32:06 AM »
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What is the rarest write protect tab on a floppy you've ever seen?


http://imgur.com/N06AP1R
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Offline amiadudeorwatTopic starter

Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2017, 12:42:02 PM »
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http://imgur.com/N06AP1R

That is a truly rare bigly'ed floppy!
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Offline paul1981

Re: Rarest Write Protect Tab
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2017, 10:58:48 PM »
My Lotus Esprit disk is green. Is that worth thousands of smackers?
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