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From: twm@genrad.UUCP (Tim W. Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Bargain diskettes (BEWARE!!!!)
Message-ID: <13553@genrad.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 14:55:02 GMT
References: <43458@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <46700088@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: twm@genrad.UUCP (Tim W. Mattox)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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In article <46700088@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> thompson@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>I called these folks a while back when the flyer first came out and asked
>>them specifically who these disks were made by. They said they were under
>>contract to not reveal this information!!! I said fine, I'll never buy any
>>disk that I don't know who makes it and said goodbye.

>If you do not want to buy those disks, fine.  Stick to name brands (which
> MEI has at very good discounts as well: Sony @14.55 + .30 P/H). 

if you want Sony's by the hundreds, I just saw a price quoted by
Direct Micro(1-800-288-2887) in MacUser for $1.39 each in quantities
of 100 or more labels included.  There is free shipping for orders of
$100.00 or more.  Kao's are $1.19 in lots of 100.  Not a bad deal!!

> their inability to reveal their supplier is hardly an indication of
> a company's customer relations or "crookedness".  They are not
> trying to bilk you; they simply cannot reveal their supplier's
> name.  They may be Sony, KAO, or Joe's Disks.  Who knows?

That's the whole point, who knows.  One batch may be bad, the next
good.  Use generic diskettes for data you don't mind losing or for giving
away programs.  But when it counts, I want to know who is making the
disk, because it matters.

> Mark Thompson                  "The University Neither Knows Nor

I have been using a batch of Kao's for a while and their reliability
seems pretty good.  Maybe they can move into Sony's class, without
Sony's price.

				-Tim