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From: joel@arizona.edu (Joel Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain?
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Date: 17 Nov 88 08:10:41 GMT
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Reply-To: jms@mis.arizona.edu (Joel Snyder)
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We also have experience with MEI diskettes which is similar---they
are cheap, and you get what you pay for.  Although this isn't
exactly true.  They cost us (in quantity 500) about half as much
as Sonys, yet are not half as reliable.  In fact, I would never
trust those diskettes with anything of MINE, but I am happy to 
hand them out to our users who are always warned: "This is not
that good a diskette. Take two, and make backups."  Users who have
real data they're really concerned with usually give them back and
buy their own Sonys (or whatever); users who just need something
to port from a PC on *this* side of the room to *that* side of
the room take them gladly, since we couldn't afford to give out
the good ones as freely.

In an environment like ours, floppies flow like water, and MEI
makes a good alternative to higher-priced vendors.  We have used
their 3.5 and 5 inch products.  Not great, but we'd rather have
a one year supply than a six month supply (for the same price), 
especially when we know that six months later there's no money
to buy another six month supply.

jms