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From: jan@bagend.UUCP (Jan Isley)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: hard drive
Summary: Only Miniscribe knows for sure.
Message-ID: <801@bagend.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 89 20:11:02 GMT
References: <10284@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <20818@cup.portal.com> <4704@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: jan@bagend.UUCP (Jan Isley)
Organization: Just me and my computers, Marietta, GA
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In article <4704@tank.uchicago.edu> goer@sophist.UUCP (Richard Goerwitz) writes:
>In article <20818@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
> 
>>Last I heard, Miniscribe is in the process of going belly-up.
>
>Some substantiation of this assertion would be nice.  You say that they
>filed for Chapter 11 protection in Federal Court.  Where did you get this
>information?  This is not a flame.
>
I buy disk drives from about 8 different distributors.  In the last 3 weeks
every distributor that I deal with that carries Miniscribe has told me that
Miniscribe is history, ie: no longer accepting orders or filling old ones,
and that the supply in warehouses are drying up fast.  The 3085 is getting
scarce *real* fast.  One month ago I had distributors offering me great 
deals on quantity hundreds of the 3085s, now they cannot fill orders for 5.

Jan Isley, follower of Zen, picker of nit
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