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On 2025-01-18, rbowman  wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 14:57:44 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:
>
>> Would anyone like a couple of smaller (say 200 MB) drives for repairing
>> antique systems that can't handle more than 32 bits worth of space?
>
> They're worth their weight in gold :)  Years ago I went looking for small
> drives and found they were extremely expensive compared to the current
> offerings. I went around to the local repair shops and asked if they had
> any old, small drives. 'No, we throw those in the dumptster. They're not
> good for anything'.

Maybe it would be worthwhile to re-format them and put them on eBay.
I looked, but searching for 200MB only got me newer drives with 200MB
of cache!

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