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From: kris@beep.UUCP (Port'naybl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MEI/Micro Center floppy disks
Keywords: disk
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Date: 2 Nov 90 19:10:36 GMT
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[Pyuallup, Washington got its name when someone regurgitated there.]

     I bought some 3.5 inch floppy disks at "Wierd Stuff", a local computer
surplus dealer, that were still sealed in the box.  For this reason, I
gathered that they were new but, for some reason, wound in the store.
Some failed to format, so a zapped them with a video tape bulk eraser.
Had no trouble with them after that.

-- 
						Port'naybl

key!beep!kris
woodowl!beep!kris

"Look what they've done to my program, look what they've done to my code;
 They stuck it all on this floppy disk, and I think they got it wrong, ma..."