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From: jwbirdsa@amc-gw.amc.com (James Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MEI disks
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Date: 19 Feb 91 23:06:48 GMT
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In article <16619@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cs161fhn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes:
>
>How are MEI disks these days?

   I bought 500 bulk 5.25" 360K floppies from them a couple weeks after
Christmas. I've only had time to format ~200 of them so far, but the
results have been good. About eight with a few bad sectors (perfectly good
scratch disks for random short-term uses) and only one frisbee (bad boot
sector, useful only as a...).

   For what I paid, I'm pleased. You can buy brand-name disks with a
virtually zero error rate -- for three times or more the money per disk!

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