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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Who Misses Older Drives? (Re: write protect tab)
Message-ID: <9607@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 14:20:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 14:20:20 1986
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In article <2497@reed.UUCP> bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) writes:
>In article <635@well.UUCP> Peter Espen says
>> ..like on many of the older 5.25" and 8" drives that we all know and
>> don't miss.
>
>Speak for yourself.  I don't know if it's the IWM, the filesystem,
>the mac format, or just inevitable problems with the high-density
>medium, but I've seen more flakey mac disks in a week than
>...
>that was what made Apple use them in the mac, but frankly I would rather
>have had a bigger box, with a 5.25" drive with a real VLSI MFM disk
>controller chip in it...  Heck, the drives were almost the only thing
>the IBM PC did right!
>

Say what.  I've run my two mac drives a year and a half, cleaned them
three times, and lost one (repeat ONE) floppy during that period, (not
counting the one where I stuck a good disk into the washing machine).

During that time there have been two drives replaced out of 4 IBM PC's
at work.  Those are XT's so we are talking about a 50% failure rate.
-- 
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