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Article #27427Re: Floppies (made in the USA) (look for the union label)
From: David Getchell
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1988 15:25
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1988 15:25
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In article <1640@alliant.Alliant.COM> cantrell@alliant.UUCP
(Paul Cantrell) writes:
>
>I would recomment against Nashua. A friend had quite a few and over a couple
>of years almost EVERY ONE failed. Luckily, since he was using them for archive
>by the time they failed, he didn't really want the data on most of them
>anymore.
>
>I have stuck exclusively with Sony and Maxell and have never had a failure.
>
> PC
Is this for true, Doc? I own a couple boxes of each (Nashua, Maxell, and
Sony), and although I have had a couple Maxell's and Sony's die on me, I
have never had a Nashua fail. On the other hand, my Nashua's are all less
than a year old, and the others are almost two. Maybe disks just wear out
over time. It sure would be nice if someone did some valid testing so that
we wouldn't have to rely on annecdotal evidence.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!noao!amethyst!getchell From: getchell@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (David Getchell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Floppies (made in the USA) (look for the union label) Message-ID: <574@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> Date: 22 Apr 88 15:25:47 GMT References: <3274@haddock.ISC.COM> <EWKCqVy00Xo=0CPN8H@andrew.cmu.edu> <2839@emory.uucp> <1640@alliant.Alliant.COM> Sender: uucp@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu Reply-To: getchell@obsidian.ma.arizona.edu.UUCP (David Getchell) Organization: Dept. of Math., Univ. of Arizona at Tucson Lines: 26 Summary: Nashua Failures ?!?