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From: arwall@athena.mit.edu (Anders R Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 3.5" HD Diskettes
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Date: 1 Sep 88 11:52:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: williamo@hpcupt1.HP.COM (William O'Saughnessy)

In article <5930013@hpcupt1.HP.COM>, williamo@hpcupt1 (William O'Saughnessy) writes:
>
> 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!.  
>

Well, you can believe what you want, but that is hardly an accurate
test of the suitability of LD diskettes for HD use.  Let me know six
months down the road when you've been using these things extensively.
As I've said before, there is only one question that determines
whether you use LD disks in place of the (much) more expensive HD's:
how important is your data to you?
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