Re: Beware: CompUSA Hard Drive theft! Don't buy there!

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From: Eric Topp
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 00:00

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"Dark Jedi", spamtrap@a-jediknight.webaxxs.net writes:

>this reminds me of the old Miniscribe scandal. Many moons ago when
>Miniscribe existed, the CEO and CFO saw that they were going to go
>under. So the ramped up production and sent out outrageous sales
>projections. when the stock got high enough, they sold all theirs. BUT:
>the cost of production was so hight, to last long enough, they ordered
>that the drive boxes be sent packaged with a brick instead of a drive.
>They went to jail, of course, but fraud like that gets 5 years or so in
>low security (Club Fed)
>
>hehe, I still have one of those packaged bricks. quite a collector's
>item... but an expensive one. no refunds on a bankruptcy...

As someone who used MiniScribe drives, I can say that the performance
specs of the brick are only slighlty worse than a real drive.

 -=E

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