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Article #40693

Re: 3.5" disks needed!

#40693
From: Mickey Boyd
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 06:29
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In article <2013@moscom.UUCP>, tmb@moscom.UUCP (Tom Bellucco) writes:
>Help!!  For the past couple years, I've been buying bulk 3.5" DSDD disks from
>MEI/MicroCenter.  I've bought THOUSANDS of disks from them, starting when they
>were $1 per disk.  Now they are $.45 per disk and they are shit.  Out of each
>200 I buy, at least 50-75 of them won't format DS.  I figure they are just
>using SS disks (because the SS disks are the same price).  Back when the
>disks were from $.70 - $1 each, they were great disks and it was a great deal.
>Now it sucks having to return disks only to get more bad ones.  Some of these
>disks have "marks" (look like scratches) across the media that I just wonder
>is doing to my drive.
>
>I need to find a place that sells bulk DSDD disks, GOOD disks at a good price.
>I buy, on the average, 100 a month.
>
>.........
>-- 
> Tom Bellucco - moscom!tmb@cs.rochester.edu  or  {...}!rochester!moscom!tmb
>                    -------------------------------------
>   "Whatever I said, I didn't mean it...unless, of course, you liked it!"
>   #include <std.disclaimer>                                              

I have recently seen an ad in the latest Damark catalog (have some real deals,
and some real caca) for bulk Sony disks.  Cost is $79 for 100 disks.  I don't
know if they are good or factory seconds or what, but the price seems good.
They have a 1-800 number (they advertise in everything, they are the ones with
the full page adds for discontinued lapstops and stuff) which I do not have 
handy, but I recommend finding it and requesting a catalog.  They do have some
neat stuff in there, weird things that the general populus did not catch on
to, but are just the thing for us wire-heads.

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              Mickey Boyd            |    "Nobody can be exactly like me.
         FSU Computer Science        |      Even I have trouble doing it."
      mail:  boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu   |              - Tallulah Bankhead
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From: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Subject: Re: 3.5" disks needed!
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