Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu!martens From: martens@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: PD Disks Summary: just dealt with Gemini Shareware, Bellevue, WA Message-ID: <74679@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 4 Dec 89 21:08:15 GMT Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Jeff Martens Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 28 I ordered 10 PD and shareware disks from Gemini Shareware, and figured I'd pass along my experiences: Pluses: 1) the guy that took my order was able to answer all my questions 2) the price, $3 / disk plus a relatively small shipping fee, was pretty good. 3) it took less than a week to get the order Minuses: 1) three of the ten disks had unreadable tracks -- track 79 in two cases, tracks 39, 66, and one other in the third. A 30% failure rate is unacceptably high. I wonder if they use bad disks or a badly aligned drive. I haven't given them a call re replacing the disks, and I won't have time to figure out what I lost because of this yet. If it's just .info files or something else I'd never need, I won't bother them. If I can ftp it quickly, that's fine too. If I have a problem, I'll post a followup. -=- -- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu) Expect a severe winter -- I saw a trailer full of snowmobiles heading south on US 23.