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From: williamo@hpcupt1.HP.COM (William O'Saughnessy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 3.5" HD Diskettes
Message-ID: <5930013@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 88 15:34:53 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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 I just purchased 20 bulk 88 cent each 3.5" 720kb diskettes.  I used a
 soldering iron to put a hole in them at the proper spot for 1.44 megers.
 I formatted 6 of them with a formatter that checks for bad sectors.
 There were no errors in the format process.  I filled them with data
 and copied them to nul to verify read without error.  There were no
 errors on the six I tested.  To the question "Are we being ripped off?",
 I believe we can answer a firm YES!.  

 By the way I am very happy with the Toshiba 1.44 meg diskette drive 
 that I used for the above tests.
 
 As always no guarantees are implied or given for any of the above,
 its just the truth as best I know it.

				Bill O'Shaughnessy