Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca.wv.tek.com!pogo!jonh From: jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Floppy Disks from MEI/Micro Center Message-ID: <11061@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Date: 14 Jun 91 02:04:29 GMT References: <1991Jun6.190601.616@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1991Jun8.044915.19518@midway.uchicago.edu> <91164.091548JXY2@psuvm.psu.edu> Reply-To: jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR. Lines: 29 JXY2@psuvm.psu.edu (Jie Yuan) writes: >tap@iti.org (Thomas A. Phelps) says: >>Disks are cheap via mail order, nowadays. Check out MEI/Micro Center >>800-634-3478. They have terrific prices. Last I saw, 1.44 Meg floppies >>were $.59 each in lots of 25. Duplicates are cheap insurance. >I was interested in 3.5 in HD floppies and called them. It was $.59/ea >in lots of 25 with $.50 for shipping per lot (of 25) and handling of $3.00 >per order. The total would be $18.24 if you order a lot of 25, averaging >$.73/ea. It would be cheaper if you order more since the handling fee >is fixed per order. I've been using MEI's disks for a number of years now. (Remember back when we had 5.25" disks? Heh heh.. Boy, THOSE were the days... :^) The price is right, but it's been my experience that a good number of the "certified 200% error free -- if you find an error, we'll buy you a Mac IIfx!" disks do end up unformattable. I don't know how reliable the "good" (read: $5 per disk :v) brands are, but I expect about one in ten or twenty of my MEI bulk disks to fail formatting. That's OK with be, since the price is right (even averaging out the junk ones), but you might want to keep this in mind. This isn't a slam on MEI; I intend to order a batch of HDs from them Real Soon Now. --Jon -- jonh@pogo.wv.tek.com | moc.ket.vw.ogop.hnoj Jon 6417 Sorrel Way | yaW lerroS 7146 noJ Howell West Linn, OR 97068 | 86079 RO, nniL tseW llewoH 503/657-7964 | 4697-756\305