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Article #4293Re: MEI/Micro Center floppy disks
From: Kevin D. Quitt
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 17:19
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 17:19
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In article <6834@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes:
>
>Although I generally never buy anything from Computer Shopper,
>I've seen enough MEI/Micro Center advertisements over the
>years to feel it was worth ordering from them.
>
>My order of 5.25" HD, 3.5" DD and HD diskettes arrived yesterday
>and I started formatting the 5.25" HD's. The VERY FIRST one was
>a disaster, finally formatting with a number of bad sectors.
>I tried the remaining 24 in the package... out of 25 diskettes I
>had problems with 3. I've never had a failure rate like that...
>in fact I only remember ONE diskette in 7 years that failed to
>properly format the first time. My drive is fine. I'm afraid to
>try the 3.5" diskettes.
I've been buying from MEI for a number of years, and have never had
any problem with them. One batch of floppies from them was "bad" (i.e.
10 bad floppies out of 100). I called, and a replacement for the entire
order arrived the next day. I've never lost data from one of their
floppies (that was the floppy's fault, anyway).
I'll stick with them for now. (I also get calls from salescritters
who want to sell me ribbons. Their prices for one ribbon usually matches
what MEI charges for a half-dozen of the same ribbons).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!srhqla!demott!kdq From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: MEI/Micro Center floppy disks Keywords: disk Message-ID: <864@demott.COM> Date: 29 Oct 90 17:19:53 GMT References: <6834@hub.ucsb.edu> Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) Distribution: comp Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA Lines: 32