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From: lalor@cod.NOSC.MIL (Joe Lalor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Dead floppies
Message-ID: <2605@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 21 Dec 90 17:38:20 GMT
References: <1990Dec21.161038.11141@sarah.albany.edu>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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From article <1990Dec21.161038.11141@sarah.albany.edu>, by derek@leah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man):
> In article <10547@ilog.UUCP> skyvingt@ilog.UUCP (William Skyvington) writes:
>>The rate at which my floppies have been dying over the last year,
>>since I've been working on several IIcx machines, is outrageous.
> 
>      I too have been encountering FAR more unreadable floppies over
> the past year or so, both 800K and 1.4MB.  I can state this objectively
> because I'm the person Mac users campuswide come to with their problems,
> and the number of trashed disks has been increasing slowly but steadily.
> This is machine-independent:  SE, IIcx, IIci, IIfx, all are about equal.

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.

JOE LALOR
lalor@nosc.mil