My 1985 diskette safe

[JohnKris]

Not the most amazing collectible but it's the one I had in grad school. There's a George communication program and a typing tutor program, provided the disks still work.

 

[jafir]

I like these. They fit well on a book shelf for storage and they are protective enough for travel.



A few years back I found some for 3.5” floppies, so I picked those up because I had not seen any before.



And then recently someone gave me one for 8” floppies.

 

[JohnKris]

We had computer lab in grad school with already old fashioned IBM 5051s. Boot with one disk, load the program on the other. The diskette safes were recommended.

 

[Al Kossow]

Doesn't really scale for archives.
I'm going crazy right now because no one makes archival boxes that are the right size
for floppy disks. You can barely even find them for CDs
I have several thousand floppies that I can't house properly in the CHM archive.

 

[JohnKris]

Doesn't really scale for archives.
I'm going crazy right now because no one makes archival boxes that are the right size
for floppy disks. You can barely even find them for CDs
I have several thousand floppies that I can't house properly in the CHM archive.

There were cardboard drawers that held 3 1/2" diskettes. They must have made them for 5 1/4". I googled for them and this came up. https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/floppy-disk-storage-boxes.34718/

 

[Chuck(G)]

Woodshop project. Easy enough to build with the right tools. Mine is about 5' high by 4' wide by about 2' deep with drawers. It would not surprise me if a local high-school shop class could be recruited to build one.

I still have a few of the 8" and 5¼" clear acrylic ones as well.
Tandy offered a disk safe for 5¼" disks that could be fitted with dividers for 3½" use. Key lock equipped.