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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Budget disks (was Re: Commerce dept. to levy duties on 3.5" floppies)
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Date: 26 Oct 88 14:30:08 GMT
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In article <Oct.24.22.31.32.1988.21830@porthos.rutgers.edu> pearl@porthos.rutgers.edu (Starbuck) writes:
>In article <1134@lakesys.UUCP> macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak) writes:
>>With the announcements of duties coming on 3.5" disks, I guess many of us we
>>be pushed into making some extra disk purchases in the near future that may
>>have otherwise been put off for a while.  E.g., I think that I will be
>>ordering around 80 disks soon.  Perhaps a few comments on the quality of the
>>less expensive brands would now be in order...
>
In response to my recent posting of a similar question, I received several
e-mail replies to the effect that buying unlabeled bulk diskettes is a very
bad idea. Even if they get past the initialization, they still fail occasionally
on a restore.  The few pennies saved isn't worth the time and effort to recreateyour files if you need to restore.

One respondent had better luck with Kao diskettes than with Sony. I've had a
few Sony's fail to initialize and just recently bought 100 Kao diskettes. Of
the 50 or so I've used, none failed to initialize.

Shirley Kehr