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Jewel cases for 3.5" Floppies? This is weird.

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First post, by King_Corduroy

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I don't know if you guys have seen this before, I certainly had never stumbled across anything like this. One day I was at goodwill perusing the jewel cases when for some reason I picked this up and noticed that it was no ordinary jewel case. This oddball case housed two 3.5" floppy diskettes instead of a CD!
Normally I wouldn't buy something like this since I don't really use windows 3.1 and I certainly don't need a screen saver and wall paper collection but the way it was packaged was just too weird to pass up. So now I have this collection of impressionist wallpapers in my software collection. 🤣

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Looks like a normal jewel case right?

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Wrong! It has floppy diskettes inside! 🤣

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There are actually two diskettes stacked on top of each other. How weird!

So have you guys seen something like this before or is this genuinely oddball?

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Reply 1 of 28, by Unknown_K

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Not a game, but Green Tweede and Company Elastomer Compatibility Guide came in EXACTLY the same package with dual 3.5" disks inside. I assume promotional material was handed out in the same CD case with either floppy disks or CDROM depending on what the user needed.

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Reply 2 of 28, by retrofanatic

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Very cool! I wish I could get a bunch of these in bulk....would be nice to round up any old floppies I have and store them and display them in these things.

Reply 6 of 28, by King_Corduroy

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🤣 nice one.

Very cool! I wish I could get a bunch of these in bulk....would be nice to round up any old floppies I have and store them and display them in these things.

I thought the same thing when I was typing this up. That would be so cool but completely overkill since 3.5" floppies are well protected anyhow by the plastic and the aluminum "shutter". 🤣

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Reply 7 of 28, by konc

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Quite uncommon, but not really so rare. I remember seeing these things during the turning point from floppies to optical media. There were two kind of products mainly distributed like this, or at least my memory says so:
-cheap, obsolete productions trying to sell another piece by looking modern (and many times fooling the buyer)
-serious commercial applications (accounting/specialized for a field/updates) that didn't need the extra capacity, but the looks

Reply 9 of 28, by archsan

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Careful though about the material's longevity, I've had some of the cheaper dvd cases degrading away making a mess. But I too am looking forward to using 3d printers for such jobs. 😀

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Reply 10 of 28, by lolo799

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I have a jewel case like that, it holds the Subwar 2050 expansion floppy disk.

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Reply 11 of 28, by PeterLI

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Reply 12 of 28, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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I still remember buying new 3.5" floppies in mid-90s. Some of the expensive models have each floppies individually encased.

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Reply 14 of 28, by King_Corduroy

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That's really cool! So was this for smaller bits of software so they didn't have to make up a whole box? It seems like it.

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Reply 15 of 28, by lolo799

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I bought the full game new and the expansion disk was part of the bundle but the expansion only can also be found in a big box of its own.

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Reply 16 of 28, by Tetrium

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I also came across 1 or 2 such jewel cases. Iirc one was a game for a different platform (perhaps Amiga?) and was perhaps a slightly different size compared to a cd jewel case. I don't see them often, the ones that are just big enough to fit the floppies I've seen more often.

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Reply 18 of 28, by Snayperskaya

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Very interesting. Never saw one of those before.

Reply 19 of 28, by DeviousMalcontent

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Sutekh94 wrote:

I have been researching the storage of Floppy Disc cases for the past week or so, ever since I picked-up some software that came in one of these, it turns out Depth Dwellers was distributed in something called a Floppy Disc Calendar Case.

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I am trying to find a place where I can buy some cheaply here in my country.

Some companies did distribute software in the floppy dual case, example: The Catacomb Adventures 3D by Software on Demand Australia.

I am also trying to find a place where I can buy these cheaply here in my country.

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