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Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: Brian on January 31, 2006, 03:32:23 PM: Do any of you sel floppy disks to the pupils?

(Sorry for the short post.)
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: casper on January 31, 2006, 03:35:59 PM: I used to sell the for 20p but I'm trying to push them towards USB pens.
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: Brian on January 31, 2006, 03:39:01 PM: Yeah, the USB pens would be more reliable than the old fashioned floppies.
Title: USB Pens
Post by: blondnotstupid on January 31, 2006, 04:06:15 PM: I sell the USB pens to our boys, but only at the price I buy them in. Our problem is that they constantly leave them at their tail ends and other less friendly ones pocket them.
Title: Re: USB Pens
Post by: Brian on January 31, 2006, 06:48:45 PM: Quote from: "blondnotstupid"
I sell the USB pens to our boys, but only at the price I buy them in. Our problem is that they constantly leave them at their tail ends and other less friendly ones pocket them.

How much do you buy them in for?
Title: USB Pens
Post by: blondnotstupid on February 01, 2006, 09:12:15 AM: The last lot I got were 18.20 inc vat (256MB). 8)
Title: Re: USB Pens
Post by: Brian on February 01, 2006, 10:27:39 AM: Quote from: "blondnotstupid"
The last lot I got were 18.20 inc vat (256MB). 8)

Is that the price for them individually or for a box of them, if its for a box, how many's in the box?
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: Gerard on February 01, 2006, 10:32:55 AM: im guesing its just for 1. thats around the same price i get them for and 12.99 for the 128mb
Title: USB Pens
Post by: blondnotstupid on February 01, 2006, 10:50:28 AM: Only for one I'm afraid, but if anyone knows of any cheaper I'd be interested. 8)
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: Angela on February 01, 2006, 11:52:50 AM: Yeh

I'd be interested if anyone can get them any cheaper too. Our girls tend to like the ones with a keyring that way they're always with them on their keys and less chance of loosing them, mind you same applies for the teachers.

:idea: Heh may we could do a deal with a company if we all agreed to buy x amount each they would do us all a deal. I'll check out my best price so far and get back to yous later.
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: Outlaw27 on February 01, 2006, 12:30:50 PM: I buy the USB pens drives of Mesh Technology Ltd in Lurgan. 256Mb is about £14.00
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: casper on February 01, 2006, 12:39:53 PM: I bought the last batch of Datapac in Belfast. they were £10 +Vat - bought 200 of them :)
Title: USB Pens
Post by: blondnotstupid on February 01, 2006, 12:49:51 PM: What size did you get for £10? Datapac would be out main suppliers and I'll have to kick ass if they don't give us all the same deal :twisted:
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: casper on February 01, 2006, 01:36:25 PM: They're 128meg pens. We bought a whole load about 6 months ago.
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: Gerard on February 01, 2006, 01:45:42 PM: i also get them from data pac

number is 028 90 457575 usually ask for john
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: bahhumbug on February 01, 2006, 01:56:13 PM: 200 @ £10 + VAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what sorta budget are you operating on ?

I'm lucky if I can persuade em to buy me a box of floppies !

We get memory pens from Datapac too but I take orders from staff and pupils every now and then, collect the money and then order them.
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: casper on February 01, 2006, 02:48:07 PM: We worked out what the demand would be, ordered them and then sold them to anyone that wanted one. So far the uptake hasn't been bad :)
Title: USB Pens
Post by: blondnotstupid on February 01, 2006, 03:49:44 PM: I ordered 100 and gave them out to any staff that wanted one. If any teachers wanted more than one, they had to pay for it. Nearly every department has been provided this way. ( I've stopped worrying about the budget - I just treat it like my overdraft - if you ignore it then it doesn't really exist.)

The boys have bought the rest of the pens but they all checked the price at the time and were happy with the cost. They have more money than the rest of us and think nothing of buying a second or third because they have 'lost' theirs. 8)
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: Angela on February 01, 2006, 04:24:56 PM: Supplies team £11 for 256 busbi

Misco does Lexar 256 £12.30 delivery charge around £8 but you can negotiate del sometimes
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: Beats on March 07, 2006, 02:14:19 PM: You can get a 256Mb memory stick from play.com for 13.99 delivered, but we generally use datapac too but only the odd small order.

Talkin of memory sticks, I have 1 here sayin it's not formatted and there's a lot of data on it that the teacher hasn't backed up, any way to get it off? I've tried a data recovery tool but it doesn't like it at all... :(
Title: USB Pens
Post by: blondnotstupid on March 07, 2006, 02:20:40 PM: Try going into the properties of the usb and select tools. Check the disk and defrag if needed. This sometimes works. Also, some come with their own software and occasionally lock the disk. Not sure how to unlock it - sorry. :wink:
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: Beats on March 07, 2006, 02:24:41 PM: When I try to check it for errors it just closes the window when I hit start and it says it can't defrag this type of disk :(

He's gonna check for software it came with tonight but doesn't think he has any... and doesn't know what make or model it is...

Thanks anyway
Title: USB Drive Problem
Post by: colinjrobinson on March 08, 2006, 09:13:00 AM: Quote from: "Beats"
When I try to check it for errors it just closes the window when I hit start and it says it can't defrag this type of disk :(

He's gonna check for software it came with tonight but doesn't think he has any... and doesn't know what make or model it is...

Thanks anyway

I know this is slightly different to your problem but I have used this in the past to get past problems with USB Drives:

When you attach a USB key drive to your computer you may get an error message "USB device not recognised" this is a simple solution to the problem:

Close everything down.

Remove all USB peripherals.

Remove the power leads.

Leave the computer for about 30 minutes

Plug back in after 30 minutes and start the computer

Attach USB devices one by one.

XP has been forced to restore all its drivers.
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: LOUD on March 15, 2006, 08:56:33 AM: There is an excellant website where we buy 512mb for under £18. but you pay £3 for postage i think. if you buy in bulk you are charged for postage once i think well we have been so far.

No problems with any of the memory sticks yet and we been buying them for three years now. You can download the drivers for 98 machines from the same place.

we sell them at the same price to the students and teachers.

you can buy memory for camera, MP3 player. et

www.mymemory.co.uk
Title: Floppy Disks
Post by: adama on March 29, 2006, 09:17:49 AM: Quote from: "Beats"
You can get a 256Mb memory stick from play.com for 13.99 delivered

Play.com are great value, i believe they're even stocking 4GB USB pens the size of your thumb, compared to the fist sized mini-HDD ones of last year :)
Title: Supplies Team
Post by: Bill Bixby on March 29, 2006, 01:02:43 PM: They phoned me the other day with prices (excluding VAT)

256MB £9.31

512MB £14.74

1GB £25.21

...but we're a voluntary grammar so they seem to charge us differently (less in otherwards).

These are the best rpices I have seen yet.

I bought a batch from Misco, black ones, and had quite a few faulty.