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Article #34629Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain?
From: Joseph M. Piazza
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1988 17:59
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1988 17:59
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In article <1231@ndmath.UUCP> snow@ndmath.UUCP (Dennis Snow) writes:
>
>After reading several articles praising Sony disks, I thought I would pass
>along my 'statistics'. Out of 50 Sony disks I have used in the past two years
>I have had 3 of them develope read errors. One of these disks was only
>rarely used for archiving files. By way of contrast, none of my four year
>old original 400K Apple disks (used on the same machines) have ever gone bad.
>
>For all I know, ...
(which doesn't seem like much) :-)
>... the original Apple disks were made by Sony.
They were.
>But a 6%
>failure rate for my Sony disks does not strike me as reliable.
And I suppose 50 disks is a sufficiently large sample to make us
avoid Sonys?
The solution is obvious: draw a little Apple logo on the Sony labels.
Flip side,
joe piazza
--- Cogito ergo equus sum.
CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!sunybcs!jmpiazza From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain? Message-ID: <2783@cs.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 20 Nov 88 17:59:27 GMT References: <32406@bbn.COM> <685@wilbur.unix.ETA.COM> <1231@ndmath.UUCP> Sender: nobody@cs.Buffalo.EDU Reply-To: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 34