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From: david@jc3b21.UUCP (David Quarles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 1.44M disks
Message-ID: <574@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 16:47:28 GMT
References: <7683@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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From article <7683@ihlpf.ATT.COM>, by bird@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Walters):
>>> MEI has been offering 3.5" disks for .79 ea in lots of
>>> 25 for some time (some shipping charges are added, not much)...
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>> I understand the failure rate on these is pretty high ... 
>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dave =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> 
> I've used there 5.25 disks for two years and had perhaps 2 failures
> out of hundreds of disks. 

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SOMEONE POSTED A SUMMARY here a while back and reported that these disks
while said they were 800k would not always format to 800k and that some
even had trouble formatting to 400k.

This is why I commented on this.  PERHAPS THE PERSON who reported this
originally could respond to this.  Apparently, several people have had
NO problem with this source.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dave =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= EOT