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From: M. Patrick Simon
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1988 23:10
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1988 23:10
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I thought people might want to see this information. It was posted to a bulletin board where I work. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated in any way with any of the companies mentioned below or with any of their competitors. --Patrick Simon mpsimon@phoenix.princeton.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- .Description: 3M Floppies for the Macintosh. *Warning* .From: RHN Date: 14-APR-1988 . . Richard Siegel from Carnegie Mellon University reported in the Usenet Mac .Digest (Vol 4,Issue 48) that they have experienced reliability problems with .3M brand floppies in their Macintosh computers. This has included such things .as oxide flaking off and damage to the drives themselves. Users here should .take this report into consideration when ordering floppies for their own use.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!udel!princeton!phoenix!mpsimon From: mpsimon@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (M. Patrick Simon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: floppies Message-ID: <2602@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 20 Apr 88 23:10:28 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 18