🚀 go-pugleaf

>>Is this what I can look forward to if I buy generic diskettes?

>I have made a single diskette purchase from MEI and was quite dissatisfied
>with the results.  Out of the 50 I bought, perhaps 5 did not format and since
>that time I have had another 5 become corrupted.  Since I started using
>Maxells I haven't had a problem.  Of course, one pays for them in blood!

I buy Sony double-sided disks, in bulk, from ComputerWare. I just bought
another 30 @ ~$1.30 each. Add to that a label (also bought bulk) and disk
holders ($10.00 for the standard plastic & smoke cover that holds 20-30),
and you're at, maybe, $1.45, worst case.

Now, you can save a lot of money buying cheaper diskettes. I used to, until
the day I crashed my hard disk and found that my backups were worthless
because the floppies had gone bad on me. 

Saving thirty cents a floppy seems like a good deal until it costs you
twenty man-hours of work -- IF you have all the data so it can by typed in
again. I've never lost a Sony diskette. More importantly, I've never lost a
file that I had stored on one.

Penny Wise, Pound foolish



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