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From: erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floppies (and SS vs DS)
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Date: 12 Mar 88 14:11:28 GMT
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In article <449@apctrc.UUCP> lbrown@apctrc.UUCP (Lawrence H. Brown) writes:
>In article <7621@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mills-cl@pike.cis.ohio-state.edu (christopher mills) writes:
>=	Well, I was there just last weekend and they were all out of the $0.99
>=disks.  The dealer said they woulden't have them for a while, and mentioned
>=something about a national shortage of 3.5" floppies.
>=
>=	They did have the more expensive name brand ones, though...
>
>Isn't this the old bait-n-switch routine?  
>-- 
>	Lawrence H. Brown
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>Disclaimer: I paid 25 cents to see the light.  Call it cheap entertainment.


No, this is not bait-n-switch.  Many months ago (perhaps over a year) They
used to have both single-sided and double-sided generics.  At one point, they
ran out of floor stock and have never caught up with the back orders.

Personally, as I mentioned in a previous discussion strand, I use their generic
single-sided disks (0.79 Q100) and have few problems.  I probably have twice
as many disks go bad as if I were using double-sideds, but out of 250+ disks,
I have 1 disk which will not format track 40 (Still good for Macintoshes) and
7 disks which need to have the data put back on them (Fish and Amicus disks).
I also keep backups of _all_ my working disks, do you?  Since over half of my
floppies are for archival storage of data which is easily recoverable, I do
not think I am taking a risk with single-sided disks.

-ethan

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