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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: selecting UNIXpc floppies: some advice
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Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 01:16:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 01:16:37 1987
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Reply-To: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Organization: Amanuensis Inc., Grindstone, PA
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Keywords: UNIXpc 3B1 PC7300 diskettes

My favorite brand of floppies is Maxell.  I've gone the bulk floppy route, with
mixed success.  Not too long ago I found an outfit that sells Maxells in bulk.
This is just about the best of all possible worlds.  They do require that you
buy 200 at a gulp, but then that hard disk will eat floppies, oh so many
floppies ...  It will ruin your whole day to be depending on a backup and
then find a bad sector when you are restoring, even though cpio -it worked
fine when you made the backup!

The outfit I buy from is:

Princeton Diskette
800-426-0247
415 Central Blvd., Brick, NJ 08724

The price seems to vary depending on what kind of deal they themselves have
been able to make; I think the last time I bought some they cost me something
like $.64 a piece.  There are cheaper prices than that on bulk floppies, but
I sure haven't seen cheaper prices on a brand you could hang your hat on.

Disclaimer:  I have no connection with Princeton Diskette, and am only a
happy customer.  I've used these diskettes on some mighty fussy QD machines,
like Altos 586 and 2086, with no problems whatever, even though they aren't
listed as QD.  If you need floppies in quantity, check 'em out.
-- 
 Jim Rosenberg
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