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Article #34950Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain?
From: Paul T. Chieffo
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1988 14:06
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1988 14:06
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In article <1288@X.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
>The October 31, 1988 Business Week had a short article on floppies
>(page 152A). Recently, a disk-testing equipment manufacturer
>(Memory Control Technology) tested 100 3.5" diskettes from 25
>manufacturers. Though all the diskette were labeled as meeting
>"the government's most critical...standards", only four brands
>actually met the standards in their test: C. Itoh, IBM, Sony, and TDK.
^^^^^^^^
If you are looking for C. Itoh 3.5" diskettes cheap, try Direct
Micro(1-800-288-2887). They run $1.19 each quantity of 100 or more,
shipping and labels are included.
>Memory Control Technology rated C. Itoh, TDK, Memorex,
>Kao, and IBM as best buys, and Xidex, Wabash, Dysan, and SKC as worst.
I have had no problem with C. Itoh diskettes after using over 100 of them
over a two year period.
-Tim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!ptc From: ptc@genrad.com (Paul T. Chieffo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain? Message-ID: <13863@genrad.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 14:06:31 GMT References: <32406@bbn.COM> <46700087@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> <1288@X.UUCP> Sender: news@genrad.UUCP Reply-To: ptc@condor.UUCP (Tim Mattox) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Bolton, Mass. Lines: 21