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Article #34269Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain?
From: Joel Snyder
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1988 08:10
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1988 08:10
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We also have experience with MEI diskettes which is similar---they are cheap, and you get what you pay for. Although this isn't exactly true. They cost us (in quantity 500) about half as much as Sonys, yet are not half as reliable. In fact, I would never trust those diskettes with anything of MINE, but I am happy to hand them out to our users who are always warned: "This is not that good a diskette. Take two, and make backups." Users who have real data they're really concerned with usually give them back and buy their own Sonys (or whatever); users who just need something to port from a PC on *this* side of the room to *that* side of the room take them gladly, since we couldn't afford to give out the good ones as freely. In an environment like ours, floppies flow like water, and MEI makes a good alternative to higher-priced vendors. We have used their 3.5 and 5 inch products. Not great, but we'd rather have a one year supply than a six month supply (for the same price), especially when we know that six months later there's no money to buy another six month supply. jms
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!rutgers!apple!bionet!ig!arizona!joel From: joel@arizona.edu (Joel Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain? Message-ID: <7927@megaron.arizona.edu> Date: 17 Nov 88 08:10:41 GMT References: <32406@bbn.COM> <818@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: jms@mis.arizona.edu (Joel Snyder) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: U of Arizona MIS Dept, Tucson Lines: 21