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From: pes@bath63.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sony floppys:  The emperor's new clothes
Message-ID: <2082@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Jan 88 15:38:27 GMT
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Reply-To: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)
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Posted: Fri Jan 15 10:38:27 1988


Colour theory makes sense if you subscribe to the cynical theory that none of
these folks actually *make* disks, but rather put their own labels on disks
made by disk-making factories run by God-knows-who.

University of Bristol use Maxell's for 3 inch disks; and 3M for 3.5 and 5.25
inch disks.  Very high rate of success, and we use them by the thousands (at
least).  A few other **brand** names slip in from time to time.  Our experience
is that unbranded disks are likely to be disasterous -- the more so, the more
their price sits below the 'brand' names.  (In fact, there appears to be a
pretty good correlation between price and quality, in our experience.)  At
the very least, buy top quality disks for your backup copies of things.  (You
DO keep backups, no?)

(Just noticed one problem with the colour theory, to wit, that Sony disks
(which initiated this chain) are BLUE, at least over here.)