Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sony floppys:  The emperor's new clothes
Message-ID: <4382@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 22:48:46 GMT
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Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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In article <2362@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:

[ about reliable disks ]

>        In general I subscribe to the color theory proposed, I think,
>by Leo in the past,

That was me with the "colour theory", casting Blue disks as heroes and Tan 
disks as villains.

>                        Best   -   Blue

The "made in Japan" vs "made in USA" idea appears to be right. I've encountered
no-name or made-in-USA blue disks that looked just like Sony's but which had
defective media.

>                         2nd   -   Grey

I like Polaroid disks the best now, but have very few of them. Also that
"permanent label" makes me afraid to write on it since I may want to erase
it later on.

I'm also amazed by how poor Dysan disks are, especially since many profs only
allow students to use selected brands of disks for use in the engineering
PC's and they all think Dysan is God (I'm not sure if engineering has moved
into 3.5" disks yet).

John
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