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From: ralph@world.std.com (Ralph Lombreglia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Dead floppies
Summary: About time Apple addressed the floppy drive failure.
Keywords: floppies, drives, recalls
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.230513.167@world.std.com>
Date: 21 Dec 90 23:05:13 GMT
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Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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>An Apple employee two months back told me that Apple has formally
>asked 
>Sony to examine their drives for possible fixes or an out and out
recall
>of the drives.  Apparently, there are enough complaints that Apple
has
>gone back to what they believe is the source-Sony who makes the
drives.


Glad to hear it.  Like so many others, I've reached the point where I
literally don't feel I can trust floppies that come out of my machine,
which is a two-year-old SE/30 with the first generation SuperDrive.
And it's been going on for a while.  In my case, the problem is almost
exclusively with 1.4 MB disks.  I've asked for a response from the
resident Apple tech person on Bix, and received nothing, which made me
think that in fact they were working on an offical response.