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From: cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander)
Subject: Re: Which Floppies are best?  Still Sony?
Message-ID: <1991Jul1.034616.28978@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Keywords: Diskettes, Floppies, Sony, Evaluation
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 03:46:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jun28.133305.754@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> 
usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU writes:
>About 5 years ago, at least, the Berkely Users Group ran regular
>evaluations of floppies to see which brand was most reliable, and
>Sony was twice as reliable as the next most reliable brand.  Does
>anyone have new statistics from any source, on both DDs and HDs?
>Thanks.
 
There's a thread on this in comp.sys.mac.apps (it began life as
a thread on a topic appropriate to that area).  It's most recent
title is: "Diskette Quality (was: BASF disks are BARF)"
 
The thread's just getting up to steam; so far praise for KAO,
Sony, and Maxell.  Personally, I'll say this:  although well
over half my disks are Sonys, over half the disks in my dead-disk
pile are other brands.
 
--Carl Alexander                  |           BCS*Mac 
News Editor, The Active Window    |  The Boston Computer Society 
cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu          |     Macintosh Users Group