Hundreds of Double Density Disks

[AmigaJohn]

Hello everyone,

I was cleaning out my closet, and I came across two avon boexes full of Amiga double density disks.

There must be at *LEAST* 600 disks.  I will count them if someone is interested.

So I went out and found this great board, and I thought I would see if anyone is interested?

It would certainly be a shame to toss out all these loaded disks...

I sell PC stuff on Ebay all the time, so that might be the way to go.

What do you guys think?

(I also have an Amiga 500, with 1MB & external SCSI with 2MB addon RAM, that I don't want anymore.  I took the A500 apart and "extended" the keyboard wire, so I could remove the keyboard and use it that way.  I tested it a month back and let my kids see dad's old games, so I know it still works.  I couldn't get the hard drive to show up though, that connector was always finicky on position)

[Homer]

Hi AmigaJohn, where in the world are you ? Are you sure you can sell these disks now the children have tasted 'Amiga'  :lol:

[AmigaJohn]

Hello,

I am in Washington State.

Well, my kids were not as thrilled as I was with the many (many many) Amiga games of my past.  

They are all spoiled growing up with Xbox graphics, while I grew up with Atari 2600 graphics.

[HopperJF]

Are there any games/apps on these disks? I would be interested...

[AmigaJohn]

Oh yes...  they are loaded... probably 90-95% of them are games.  
 

[TjLaZer]

You can offer them on craigslist with the Amiga and get some money for it if you wanted to.  Or you can offer it to someone for free.  Where in WA are you?  I am in Tacoma but I have enough Amiga stuff.  Someone would gladly take them off your hands.

[AmigaJohn]

Thanks for the information.

THey are up on Ebay now.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=008&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=180049410878&rd=1&rd=1

I've had a dozen people asking me questions about them, so I am sure that they will go to a good home by the end of the auction.

Boy, it took a LONG time to count all of those!!!

[InTheSand]

Hehe! Nice photos, don't think I've seen that many floppy disks in one place at one time!!

 - Ali

[TjLaZer]

Damn steep price, didn't think you wanted an arm and a leg for blank disks...

[McVenco]

150 dollars for 1000 disks? :lol:

I recently threw away 3500 5.25" and some 400 3.5" disks. I could have bought me another BPPC for those disks if prices were really that high. :-D

[Speelgoedmannetje]

How expensive are HD floppies nowadays?
You can easily use them with a bit of adhesive tape as DD floppies. If one can get new hd floppies for the same price I'd say that's preferable. /me has experience in throwing away gazillions of faulty -yet seemingly in mint condition looking- floppies.

[AmigaJohn]

I didn't know what they were worth either, but then I found this auction on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/HUNDREDS-OF-AMIGA-500-4000-PROGRAMS-ON-3-5-FLOPPY-DISKS_W0QQitemZ140049369183QQihZ004QQcategoryZ4315QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item140049369183

Since he sold 523 disks at that price & I have more than twice as many disks as he did, that I would be safe to start my auction at the same price.

I'm sure the guy who bought 523 disks would have rather had 1,111 disks for the same price.

[AmigaJohn]

That is a good question, so I went to staples, and found the cheapest of the cheapy disks they had (staples brand name, generic disks)

A pack of 10 disks is $4.28
http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=85880&cmArea=SEARCH

A MUCH better deal is to buy their 100 disk pack (best deal they have, again using the generic Staples brand)

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=14717&cmArea=SEARCH

The 100 generic disk pack is $25

So, using the 10 packs as an example you need to purchase 111 packs, which would cost a total of $475.50

Using the cheapest generic disks in 100 packs at $25 each, you would have to purchase 11 packs, and that would cost $277.75

And then of course you would have to do whatever it is that you do with adhesive tape to each and every disk to make them work. Oh yeah, and they don't come with games already on them.  

I have to sell them as blanks for A) legal reasons and B) I don't want someone to purchase them, and be thrilled about 1,100 disks with games on them and then complain because 11 of the games don't work on his Amiga, for whatever reason.

The disks have all been stored nicely in a box in neat rows and when I turned on the Amiga and played a bunch of games with my kids, every one of them worked.

These aren't a bunch of junk disks.  As far as I know they all work, but I think you guys are underestimating the huge number of disks here.

If I were to load one disk and test it out every 10 minutes nonstop it would take me 185 hours to test each and every disk (that's 11,100 minutes)...  so if I were to do that for 6 hours a day (after work) it would take me 31 days to test each disk.

:-D  So even for "blanks" the price is very good. :-D

[Tomas]

TjLaZer wrote:
Damn steep price, didn't think you wanted an arm and a leg for blank disks...

If you read the description, then you would see that they are not blank. They were sold as blanks because he have not tested the floppies to see if they were all still alright. If they were sold as something else, then the buyer could have complained about non working disks and so on..
For me it would depend on how many originals that are included...

[aardvark]

I'd think that if you split them up into 11 auction of 101 disks that you'd probably get more overall.  especially if you could throw in any manuals (if any) that you had lying around.  Besides, I could afford 1/11 of that, but not the whole thing. :-)