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From: ldg@yoda.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: it's the little things that annoy me
Summary: BASF 3.5" floppies are vile
Keywords: failure, floppies, awful
Message-ID: <111ldg@yoda.byu.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 90 06:55:21 GMT
References: <52048@coherent.coherent.com>
Reply-To: ldg@yoda.byu.edu (Lyle D. Gunderson)
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
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In <52048@coherent.coherent.com>, dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:

>I've been using Macs since '85 or so, and have bought perhaps 200
>floppies for my own use.  I've seen very few go bad.

It is obvious that you have bought very few BASF diskettes. Out of about
100 of them I have bought, between 10% to 20% have failed. The high
figure is if I count the replacement disks that failed. Or the
replacements for replacements for replacements that also failed. On the
other hand, out of perhaps 200 other diskettes I have purchased, only
one (a Sony) has failed. None of the approx. 100 Kao diskettes has.

These results are, of course, just my experiences, but involve perhaps
a half dozen different floppy drives, so it isn't just a sick Mac that's
been killing floppies. I would advise nobody to buy BASF 3.5" floppies.

BTW, they still owe me replacements for disks I sent in as defective.
Perhaps I should be grateful.

Lyle D. Gunderson N6KSZ | "Any technology without       | ldg@yoda.byu.edu
350 CB/BYU              | some attendant risk of misuse | CIS: 73760,2354
Provo UT 84602          | is probably trivial"          | GEnie: L.GUNDERSON
                        |             --Louise Kohl     | AO: LGunderson