{"id":978,"date":"2013-05-06T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2013-05-20T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T19:33:41","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-a-trunk-for-your-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/978\/retro-scan-of-the-week-a-trunk-for-your-disks","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> A Trunk For Your Disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trunk_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trunk_small.jpg\" alt=\"Elephant Memory Systems Trunk Floppy Disk Storage Box ad - 1983\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>An elephant never forgets your Atari 2600 cartridges.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/851\" target=\"_blank\">previous Retro Scan<\/a>, I cataloged one of my least-favorite brands of floppy disk storage boxes.  This time, I thought I&#8217;d share an ad for the Elephant Memory Systems Trunk, one of my favorite disk storage boxes.<\/p>\n<p>As far as floppy disk box designs go, the Trunk is my favorite mostly because of nostalgia.  This was one of the first floppy boxes I ever used; my dad had bought one to store our Atari 800 or Apple II floppies in (can&#8217;t remember which, although I still have it in my closet).  Compared to other disk boxes, this one feels solid, and the build quality is high.<\/p>\n<p>The Trunk does have one serious drawback, though: The lid covers so much of its outward-facing surface area that it is very hard to pick up and move around without accidentally opening it and spilling its contents on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s a pretty good floppy box.  This and the Flip &#8216;N File.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Personal Computing, November 1983, inside back cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Estimate how many 5.25&#8243; floppy disks you own.  What system(s) are they for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elephant never forgets your Atari 2600 cartridges. In a previous Retro Scan, I cataloged one of my least-favorite brands of floppy disk storage boxes. This time, I thought I&#8217;d share an ad for the Elephant Memory Systems Trunk, one of my favorite disk storage boxes. As far as floppy disk box designs go, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[139,520,519,521,518,60,522],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-139","tag-disk-box","tag-disk-storage","tag-elephant-memory-systems","tag-floppy-disks","tag-retro-scan","tag-trunk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}