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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
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Subject: Re: Mailorder Disks
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.052451.853@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 91 05:24:51 GMT
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*>Two names jump to mind immediately:  Americal and MEI/micro center.  I have
*>done ALL my diskette buying from MEI and have reached that they are:

*>no frills
*>high reliablity
*>quick service
*>low cost



Well, maybe their 3 1/2" disks are OK, but about two years
ago I bought 200 of their 5 1/4" diskettes. About 20% for-
matted with bad sectors. Many had bad track 0's. The media 
was varied. Some was dull brown and some was burnished. Some
was mottled. I even came across several with malformed write
enable notches. One had NO write enable notch (they got pro-
gressively worse and worse until they got to this one). Re-
placements took a month to get, and they weren't any good 
either. I ended up shipping the whole lot back.

On top of that, their customer service person was exceeding-
ly rude.

I'll never buy from MEI again.



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