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I'm not selling anything... I just figured I'd share some info with all of you...

I've been doing some searching to find out if there are any companies left that still manufacture 5.25" floppy disks, and I found one! David Moorman of Loadstar gave me the name of the company, and I've done a bit of legwork with them to get pricing information (their website doesn't give many specifics), so I thought I'd share what I've found with all of you.

The name of the comany is ATHANA International, Inc.

Their address is:
24045 Frampton Ave.
Harbor City, CA 90710, U.S.A.

Phone: 800-421-1591 or 310-539-7280
Fax: 310-539-6596
Website: http://www.athana.com/

The disks I found that are ideal for Commodore use are part number 47-7501, which come in an ATHANA box, or part number 47-7501G, which come in a plain white box. These are 5.25 Inch Diskettes DD (Double Sided, Double Density), Unformatted, 48 TPI (Soft Sector). Minimum order is for 2 boxes; each box contains 10 disks. Cost for 2 - 5 boxes is $7.95 each, plus freight. Cost for 6 - 10 boxes is $7.75 each, plus freight. Bulk orders of 500 disks or more are $0.52 per disk. Cost of freight varies, but as an example, I was told that an order of 5 boxes shipped via UPS ground would have a freight charge of $5.25. For any further details, you can call them or e-mail [email protected].

Oh, and for any of you really old school folks... They also manufacture 8" floppy disks!

I hope this information is helpful for some of you...

-Andrew

I just wanted to give everyone an update on the disks available from Athana. I placed an order with them a couple weeks ago for four boxes of DSDD 48TPI disks, and two boxes of DSDD 96TPI disks (aka "Quad Density"). The disks arrived at my home only two days later, well packaged, and all disks I've used so far have had zero errors on them (as opposed to the NOS disks I've used in the past, which have been a bit hit-and-miss). Overall, I'm very pleased!

-Andrew

I almost fell off my chair reading this.

I am trully amazed that there is still a company mfg these.

Good digging and thanks for the post.

Now we just need those big 8" disks.

I'm pretty sure they make and sell 8" floppies too.

gklinger wrote:I'm pretty sure they make and sell 8" floppies too.

Uh... yeah... just read the second-to-last sentence in my original post.

-Andrew

wiskow wrote:

gklinger wrote:I'm pretty sure they make and sell 8" floppies too.

Uh... yeah... just read the second-to-last sentence in my original post.

Yeah, I got that. I wasn't sure if Gambit had. I gotta remember to use a in posts like that.

His statement only mentioned 8" for the really old school folks. I am just medium old so of course my eyes blocked that part out.

No worries. We're all sorted.

Gambit wrote:His statement only mentioned 8" for the really old school folks. I am just medium old so of course my eyes blocked that part out.

hahahaha... got it...

just to be clear, they have 8" disks for EVERYONE.

Here's a quick run-down of all the disks that Athana manufactures:

3.5" DSDD 135tpi
3.5" DSHD 135tpi
5.25" DSDD 48tpi
5.25" SSDD 96tpi
5.25" DSDD 96tpi
5.25" DSHD 96tpi
8" SSSD
8" SSDD
8" DSDD

See more detail here:
http://www.athana.com/html/diskette.html

-Andrew