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Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain?

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From: Michael Figg
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1988 18:00
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In article <18027@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, prince@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Larry Prince) writes:
> Just a footnote:  "Lifetime guarantee" doesn't mean "these disks won't
> fail..." -- it means "we'll replace them when they do."
> 


It also means you get your disk back but not your data! I don't think it is
worth the risk with their recent record.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!dsacg1!dsacg2!nor1675
From: nor1675@dsacg2.UUCP (Michael Figg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain?
Summary: What about the data?
Message-ID: <241@dsacg2.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 18:00:24 GMT
References: <32406@bbn.COM> <818@tank.uchicago.edu> <7927@megaron.arizona.edu> <18027@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus, OH
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