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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain?
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Date: 20 Nov 88 17:59:27 GMT
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In article <1231@ndmath.UUCP> snow@ndmath.UUCP (Dennis Snow) writes:
>
>After reading several articles praising Sony disks, I thought I would pass
>along my 'statistics'. Out of 50 Sony disks I have used in the past two years
>I have had 3 of them develope read errors. One of these disks was only
>rarely used for archiving files. By way of contrast, none of my four year
>old original 400K Apple disks (used on the same machines) have ever gone bad.
>
>For all I know, ...

	(which doesn't seem like much)  :-)

>... the original Apple disks were made by Sony.

	They were.

>But a 6%
>failure rate for my Sony disks does not strike me as reliable.

	And I suppose 50 disks is a sufficiently large sample to make us
avoid Sonys?

	The solution is obvious:  draw a little Apple logo on the Sony labels.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260

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