Where to buy disk notcher?
dandy2000
don't want to pay $20 on ebay for one ;)
Thanks
J. Robertson
(dandy2000) wrote:
A kind of cheap way is to use a regular hole puncher. Just put the
disk to be punched under an all ready notched disk (to use as a guide)
and align the disks edge to edge and center the puncher in the top
disk notch and carefully punch through. I've used this method for
years without a problem.
Jason
Christian Link
wrote:
>A kind of cheap way is to use a regular hole puncher. Just put the
>disk to be punched under an all ready notched disk (to use as a guide)
>and align the disks edge to edge and center the puncher in the top
>disk notch and carefully punch through. I've used this method for
>years without a problem.
Sure, but it does look ugly. Even cutting the whole with a nail
scissor looks better (albeit still far from perfect) :-( .
Greetings,
Chris.
J. Robertson
<C.LinkS...@GMX.NET> wrote:
[ snip ]
>Sure, but it does look ugly. Even cutting the whole with a nail
>scissor looks better (albeit still far from perfect) :-( .
True. I only resorted to that because as opposed to a hole puncher I
have a weird habit of losing disk notchers. I have yet to misplace my
hole puncher ;-)
Jason
Paul Foerster
> A kind of cheap way is to use a regular hole puncher.
... never seen anything more lame. ;-)
A whole generation of freaks soldering the C64 and resoldering everthing,
expanding it internally, externally, burning eproms and replacing the original
roms with these new versions on self-made adaptors, a generation being
imaginative and genuine. But when it comes to making a few simple cuts, they
resort to an ordinary hole puncher. :-( ;-)
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oo
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Riccardo Rubini
Hi!
Well, if you have a problem with ebay, I could sell you one : only $21 .
:)))
Riccardo
Maciej Witkowiak
>> A kind of cheap way is to use a regular hole puncher.
>
> ... never seen anything more lame. ;-)
:-P, :-)
> imaginative and genuine. But when it comes to making a few simple cuts, they
> resort to an ordinary hole puncher. :-( ;-)
Hey, this _is_ creative. Hole puncher is a safe, easy and fast way to double
disk capacity. Mine is a black, iron and quite heavy tool. And it is more than
two times older than me.
ytm
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Christian Link
wrote:
>True. I only resorted to that because as opposed to a hole puncher I
>have a weird habit of losing disk notchers. I have yet to misplace my
I don't get this. Usually I'm not really what you call a lucky guy,
but I've gotten at least one disk notcher with each (!) C64 package
I've bought on ebay and the like. I really don't see what's so rare
about them - or why people misplace them ;-) . I can't dig through my
boxes without encountering any of them.
Well, but this may explain why all my luck is suddenly used up if I
try to bid on something else. It's those damn notchers that have
always prevented me from sniping a good turbo card for my AMIGA ;-) .
Greetings,
Chris.
Tony Cianfaglione
I picked up a square hole puncher at a local stationary shop. It looks
just like the round hole versions exept with a square cutting post.
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Larry Anderson
I still have this new 'left handed' one (It seems to be backward than
most others I've used) I offerd to someone previously. I's one of those
nice lever-action metal ones.
$5.00 plus shipping ($3.00 priority in US) and it's yours. (=))
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Paul Guertin
> A whole generation of freaks soldering the C64 and resoldering everthing,
> expanding it internally, externally, burning eproms and replacing the original
> roms with these new versions on self-made adaptors, a generation being
> imaginative and genuine. But when it comes to making a few simple cuts, they
> resort to an ordinary hole puncher. :-( ;-)
The hackerish solution is to add an override switch on the disk
drive itself. The one on my Apple Disk II has three positions:
normal, read-only, and read-write.
Paul Guertin
p...@sff.net
Paul Foerster
> Hey, this _is_ creative. Hole puncher is a safe, easy and fast way to
> double disk capacity.
... this is not creative. Creative would be to either manually cut out the
hole or build a notcher yourself.
> Mine is a black, iron and quite heavy tool. And it is more than two times
> older than me.
... does that mean you have the grace of late birth, as our nice old German
fat boy once put it? ;-)
Paul Foerster
> The hackerish solution is to add an override switch on the disk
> drive itself. The one on my Apple Disk II has three positions:
> normal, read-only, and read-write.
... or to build a notcher in the way that Wallace and Gromit would have done
it. ;-)
Mellwynde Dragon
notch and doesn't take up much room in the drawer on my desk. The plastic
covers are usually so light that three small cuts and presto. Saves
spending the $21 (US?) for a GOOD(?) one. :-]
J. Robertson
<C.LinkS...@GMX.NET> wrote:
>On Fri, 11 May 2001 15:50:55 -0400, J. Robertson <jk...@juno.com>
>wrote:
>
>>True. I only resorted to that because as opposed to a hole puncher I
>>have a weird habit of losing disk notchers. I have yet to misplace my
>
>I don't get this. Usually I'm not really what you call a lucky guy,
>but I've gotten at least one disk notcher with each (!) C64 package
>I've bought on ebay and the like. I really don't see what's so rare
>about them - or why people misplace them ;-) . I can't dig through my
>boxes without encountering any of them.
Heh, I'll have to buy C64 things from Ebay now just to get disk
notchers ...heh... and then lose them too ;-)
Aha! Thats were all the disk notchers end up. You have them! 8-)
>Well, but this may explain why all my luck is suddenly used up if I
>try to bid on something else. It's those damn notchers that have
>always prevented me from sniping a good turbo card for my AMIGA ;-) .
Heh
Jason
J. Robertson
wrote:
>Hi Jason,
>
>> A kind of cheap way is to use a regular hole puncher.
>
>... never seen anything more lame. ;-)
Well, um, heh, I have used a wire cutter once. Didn't work all that
well... now that was lame ;-)
>A whole generation of freaks soldering the C64 and resoldering everthing,
>expanding it internally, externally, burning eproms and replacing the original
>roms with these new versions on self-made adaptors, a generation being
>imaginative and genuine. But when it comes to making a few simple cuts, they
>resort to an ordinary hole puncher. :-( ;-)
Hehehe, I see your point. Hmm, has anyone ever tried biting a notch
out? Now that would be quite unordinary ;-)
Jason
Roel N
wrote:
>Hehehe, I see your point. Hmm, has anyone ever tried biting a notch
>out? Now that would be quite unordinary ;-)
Never seen that myself ;-) But when I was swapping, I sometimes got
disks where they just cut out the complete triangle at the top, so
including the area where the notch would be. :-)
Roel
--
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www.ZXQL3000.com - Computernerds from HELL!
Christian Link
wrote:
>Aha! Thats were all the disk notchers end up. You have them! 8-)
>
>>Well, but this may explain why all my luck is suddenly used up if I
>>try to bid on something else. It's those damn notchers that have
>>always prevented me from sniping a good turbo card for my AMIGA ;-) .
Hey, some hours ago, I finally got a good aim at an A3640 (Hello,
Ville, no nasty comments now ;-) !) and sniped it like a pro. Seems my
luck finally stopped covering disk notchers only, so they're available
again, hehe...
Greetings,
Chris.
Christian Link
>Never seen that myself ;-) But when I was swapping, I sometimes got
>disks where they just cut out the complete triangle at the top, so
>including the area where the notch would be. :-)
Woah! That's brutal! But, erm, how did they close these "holes" if
they wanted to protect these disks ;-))) ?
Chris
Paul Foerster
... well, I have one buried somewhere. It was for free, that's probably much
cheaper than your knife. If I could only find it. I was in fact searching it
these days but it can't be lost. It's just, there's so many boxes that I just
can't find the things I need though I know I have them somewhere.
Paul Foerster
> Well, um, heh, I have used a wire cutter once. Didn't work all that
> well... now that was lame ;-)
... well, lame or not, that one was at least creative. ;-)
> Hehehe, I see your point. Hmm, has anyone ever tried biting a notch
> out? Now that would be quite unordinary ;-)
... I bet you'd need pretty sharp teeth. ;-)
Ville Jouppi
wrote:
>Hey, some hours ago, I finally got a good aim at an A3640 (Hello,
>Ville, no nasty comments now ;-) !) and sniped it like a pro.
Heh, I don't have anything against other people using 3640s in their
machines.. ;-)
>Seems my
>luck finally stopped covering disk notchers only, so they're available
>again, hehe...
On the subject of disk notchers, would a certain person with several notchers
lying around perhaps be willing to let one go against a reasonable cash
compensation?-) My notcher (which I bought from a friend for $1 several years
ago) was stolen or misplaced. :-(
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J. Robertson
wrote:
>On the subject of disk notchers, would a certain person with several notchers
>lying around perhaps be willing to let one go against a reasonable cash
>compensation?-) My notcher (which I bought from a friend for $1 several years
>ago) was stolen or misplaced. :-(
Hehehe, um, Christian, look... another who misplaced his disk notcher
;-)
Oh, and, Ville has a point get rid of those extras. Say, put them on
ebay and see how high each will fetch ;-)
Jason
Christian Link
On Mon, 14 May 2001 14:15:54 +0300, Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi>
wrote:
>>Hey, some hours ago, I finally got a good aim at an A3640 (Hello,
>>Ville, no nasty comments now ;-) !) and sniped it like a pro.
>
>Heh, I don't have anything against other people using 3640s in their
>machines.. ;-)
So you can grab all the nice "real" accelerators on EBay, huh ;-) ?
>On the subject of disk notchers, would a certain person with several notchers
>lying around perhaps be willing to let one go against a reasonable cash
>compensation?-) My notcher (which I bought from a friend for $1 several years
>ago) was stolen or misplaced. :-(
Um, I know a person who actually would, even if you only paid
shipping. But I know this person well enough to know he's a really
lazy guy and certainly not going to dig through his CBM 8 bit boxes
where this kind of stuff is stored (hehe, Marks Brenner knows these
problems - but at least he has *seen* this chaos once, so he would
understand by now ;-))) ...). At least not during the next months, as
upgrading his AMIGA machines is his top priority at the moment. I
really guess you'd be better off sniping one of these items on EBay,
as I don't think paying two or three DM more or less would matter too
much.
Anyway, if I happen to accidentally stumble across one while digging
through my stuff before that, I'll remember you and drop you a mail.
Greetings,
Chris.
Pekka "Pihti" Takala
I have used scissors with 100% success for ages. If you make them
nicely, you won't see the differense.
I have even 5 1/4 inch disks those are intended to use as double sided
with one sided floppy drives... whee, they are rare! They have *two*
index holes and two factory cutten holes.
--
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*asm sw developer *home: +358-6-8311341
*cellular: +358-40-5670465
Tweel6526
>I have even 5 1/4 inch disks those are intended to use as double sided
>with one sided floppy drives... whee, they are rare! They have *two*
>index holes and two factory cutten holes.
An old, familiar sight to Loadstar subscribers -- thousands of copies went out
on those discs.
-- Brian
kie...@theriver.com
>dandy2000 wrote:
>>
>> Anyone know where I can buy a 5 1/4 floppy disk notcher?
If your not picky about the looks of the hole,you can buy a hole puncher in
almost any department store;you know the kind used for punching holes in
paper so you can put the paper in a loose leaf notebook?
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Ville Jouppi
wrote:
>On Mon, 14 May 2001 14:15:54 +0300, Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi>
>wrote:
>
>>Heh, I don't have anything against other people using 3640s in their
>>machines.. ;-)
>
>So you can grab all the nice "real" accelerators on EBay, huh ;-) ?
Hmm.. That actually never crossed my mind.. O:-) Well, I have a CSmkII/060 in
my 4k, and I'm quite contempt with that. Maybe if the G4 boards ever come
out... :-)
>Um, I know a person who actually would, even if you only paid
>shipping. But I know this person well enough to know he's a really
>lazy guy and certainly not going to dig through his CBM 8 bit boxes
>where this kind of stuff is stored (hehe, Marks Brenner knows these
>problems - but at least he has *seen* this chaos once, so he would
>understand by now ;-))) ...). At least not during the next months, as
>upgrading his AMIGA machines is his top priority at the moment. I
>really guess you'd be better off sniping one of these items on EBay,
>as I don't think paying two or three DM more or less would matter too
>much.
Heh.. :-) I'll have to take a look there some time. It isn't exactly top
priority as a knife + block of wood work fine here.
>Anyway, if I happen to accidentally stumble across one while digging
>through my stuff before that, I'll remember you and drop you a mail.
Would be great.. Thanks in advance.. :-)
Christian Link
wrote:
>>So you can grab all the nice "real" accelerators on EBay, huh ;-) ?
>
>Hmm.. That actually never crossed my mind.. O:-) Well, I have a CSmkII/060 in
>my 4k, and I'm quite contempt with that. Maybe if the G4 boards ever come
>out... :-)
"Protzkopp" :-) ! But this simply isn't or()ginaaal :-( !
>Heh.. :-) I'll have to take a look there some time. It isn't exactly top
>priority as a knife + block of wood work fine here.
Just for your information, I've seen at least *two* of them at DM 1,--
at German ebay when I browsed it yesterday. Maybe worth having an eye
on? I mean, if you can take away our good C116's from German EBay...?
:-)
Greetings,
Chris.
Ville Jouppi
wrote:
>>Heh.. :-) I'll have to take a look there some time. It isn't exactly top
>>priority as a knife + block of wood work fine here.
>
>Just for your information, I've seen at least *two* of them at DM 1,--
>at German ebay when I browsed it yesterday. Maybe worth having an eye
>on? I mean, if you can take away our good C116's from German EBay...?
>:-)
O:-) Well.. What's "Disk notcher" in German anyways.. :-) I only read two
years in jr. high several years ago and I didn't get very good marks, iirc..
Brian Watson
"Ville Jouppi" <vjo...@sci.fi> wrote in message
news:8st4gt0smhe0gb0pn...@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 15 May 2001 19:32:39 +0200, Christian Link
<C.LinkS...@GMX.NET>
> wrote:
>
> >>Heh.. :-) I'll have to take a look there some time. It isn't exactly top
> >>priority as a knife + block of wood work fine here.
> >
> >Just for your information, I've seen at least *two* of them at DM 1,--
> >at German ebay when I browsed it yesterday. Maybe worth having an eye
> >on? I mean, if you can take away our good C116's from German EBay...?
> >:-)
>
> O:-) Well.. What's "Disk notcher" in German anyways.. :-) I only read two
> years in jr. high several years ago and I didn't get very good marks,
iirc..
> :-)
In case you haven't heard, I've set up an e-list for adverts for general
8-bit sales and wants at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/8bitkit.
It's for cross-format stuff like old types of discs/disks and other
peripherals (like disk-notchers!) but, as long as it's 8-bit related,
anything goes.
There's no "middle-man" involved, so all transactions will need to be agreed
between the supplier and the buyer in each case.
If you want to get on to the distribution list, send an e-mail to the
following address 8bitkit-...@yahoogroups.com or, to post a message to
the list, send it to 8bi...@yahoogroups.com .
I'm suggesting a maximum posting frequency of "once every two weeks" on the
basis that more often than that is likely to annoy the very people with whom
you are trying to communicate!
If you later want to come off the list, just send a blank e-mail to;
8bitkit-u...@yahoogroups.com
HTH.
--
Brian
Christian Link
On Wed, 16 May 2001 15:51:01 +0300, Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi>
wrote:
>O:-) Well.. What's "Disk notcher" in German anyways.. :-) I only read two
>years in jr. high several years ago and I didn't get very good marks, iirc..
>:-)
Ooops, sorry. "Disk(etten)locher", usually.
Greetings,
Chris.
Markus Brenner
But please don't bid on the one I'm currently bidding on (my ebay user name is
minstrel_dragon).
Thanks :)
-markus
Ville Jouppi
Teehee, I won't.. I don't have any money as I only got one quarter of the pay
this month that I usually get. (over half a month at a math/physics intensive
course off work)
Thanks Christian for the name.. :-)
Christian Link
wrote:
>Thanks Christian for the name.. :-)
Before I'll forget: One of these beasts is labelled "Diskstanzer" (or
"Disk-Stanzer") on EBay, which is a proper translation as well,
although less common. But I guess that's "Markus' auction", anyway.
Greetings,
Chris.