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Article #11597Re: it's the little things that annoy me
From: ldg
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 1990 06:55
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 1990 06:55
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In <52048@coherent.coherent.com>, dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>I've been using Macs since '85 or so, and have bought perhaps 200
>floppies for my own use. I've seen very few go bad.
It is obvious that you have bought very few BASF diskettes. Out of about
100 of them I have bought, between 10% to 20% have failed. The high
figure is if I count the replacement disks that failed. Or the
replacements for replacements for replacements that also failed. On the
other hand, out of perhaps 200 other diskettes I have purchased, only
one (a Sony) has failed. None of the approx. 100 Kao diskettes has.
These results are, of course, just my experiences, but involve perhaps
a half dozen different floppy drives, so it isn't just a sick Mac that's
been killing floppies. I would advise nobody to buy BASF 3.5" floppies.
BTW, they still owe me replacements for disks I sent in as defective.
Perhaps I should be grateful.
Lyle D. Gunderson N6KSZ | "Any technology without | ldg@yoda.byu.edu
350 CB/BYU | some attendant risk of misuse | CIS: 73760,2354
Provo UT 84602 | is probably trivial" | GEnie: L.GUNDERSON
| --Louise Kohl | AO: LGunderson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!byuvax!yoda!ldg From: ldg@yoda.byu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: it's the little things that annoy me Summary: BASF 3.5" floppies are vile Keywords: failure, floppies, awful Message-ID: <111ldg@yoda.byu.edu> Date: 8 Apr 90 06:55:21 GMT References: <52048@coherent.coherent.com> Reply-To: ldg@yoda.byu.edu (Lyle D. Gunderson) Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Lines: 27