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From: kamal@wpi.WPI.EDU (Kamal Z Zamli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Mailorder Disks
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.142253.25130@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 91 14:22:53 GMT
References: <91050.132640CTB103@psuvm.psu.edu> <27018@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Feb23.052451.853@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In article <1991Feb23.052451.853@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:
>*>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.
>



Hmm, I bought 50 high density (1.2 megs) 5 1/4 disks and
25 high density (1.44 meg) 3 1/2 from MEI 2 months ago. So far
so good.... I don't have any problem with it.