11/17/05 NOTICE:

Migration has started! Please note that the smaller resolution sleeves in the archive are slowly being updated with the larger scans. Newer scans show up as larger sleeves!

WHAT'S NEW!

The image above sums up the new site but go take it for a spin yourself! Lots of big changes including:

and there are plans to implement a list of the most recent sleeves posted.

I've still not implemented cookies on the site to track users yet I may do that if only to help keep track of letting return users know which new sleeves were added.

The comments feature will only allow you to post around 250 characters or so and no html is supported as this is not a spam site, a place to post really long stories or an emoticon nightmare site. Those things are fun but not really necessary right now.

I hope you'll enjoy this site and if you can help support us, that really helps.

THE NEW ARCHIVE IS ONLINE! Please help spread the word by telling your friends! Our banner is below along with the code to paste into your journals and websites! Thanks!

Welcome to the official 5.25" disk sleeve archive which was created back in 1997 by Peter Stone. "Why in the world would anyone want to create such a place?" is what you must be asking yourself. Well, I'm still asking myself that question. Perhaps it was because, like the mountains, they were there. All of them. In my filing cabinet. Taking up space. Taunting me.

Since 1987 or so, the 5.25" floppy disk officially made its way into the backs of desk drawers, bottoms of bookcases, or boxes left in the garage, so they could make room for their smaller, hardback 3.5" brothers which ironically died an equally quick death thanks to the advent of the CD.

During their heyday, the 5.25" potential deadly throwing stars ruled our lives, stored our lives, were our lives. We praised the digital gods when the 5.25" replaced its 8" cousin and were even more amazed to learn that we could notch them ourselves so as to flip them over and use the back-sides on most personal home computers. (Even if this would void your warranty)

Yes, years have past since the 5.25" disk ruled the land and now they sit lost on various Thrift Store shelves and garbage dump piles, awaiting their fate... lost in the world, accelerated through time geometrically where as now their existence is nothing more then a faint off plastic smelling blur. (Sad isn't it)

So I, just an individual who grew up in the world of the 5.25" disk, have decided to share with the world, the lost legacy, the forgotten world, the misplaced memory of what once was. May the memories they invoke be good ones, unlike the one I have of paying $50 for a box of 10 BASF disks back in 1982.

Peter Stone - sleeves@disksleeves.com

The CyberDen Disk Sleeve Archive is currently undergoing some big changes as you can see in the news to the left but we really need your help to keep this site alive. I'm not going to bore you with facts of the costs of running this site as if you know the score, you know it ain't cheap so any donations are greatly appreciated.

If you want to advertise here, email me at the link above and we'll talk.