Here's one solution to floppy disks storage problems: metal lunch boxes from the '60s and '70s. Available at flea markets and discriminating junk shops, these feature deliciously outre graphics of long-forgotten TV shows (Partridge Family), bubble-gum bands (The Archies) and just weird stuff (Disco, Barbie). Best of all, they are a perfect fit for floppies - each "pail," as connoisseurs call them, holds about 80 disks in two rows. I keep applications in my Man From Uncle pail, archives in a Laugh-In box, games in a very cherry Evil Knievel kit, and general overflow in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
Rare pails go for serious coinage (four figures for a mint Jetsons), but it's easy to score somewhat dinged versions, the likes of Justice League of America or Dukes of Hazard, for between ten and twenty bucks - roughly the same price as the crummy plastic disk holders sold by supply stores. Which would you rather have?
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