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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: about Seagates...
Message-ID: <603@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 20:10:27 GMT
References: <92.23EB72B5@muadib.FIDONET.ORG> <6135@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <677@sactoh0.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <677@sactoh0.UUCP> bkbarret@sactoh0.UUCP (Brent K. Barrett) writes:
=In article <6135@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) writes:
=> In article <92.23EB72B5@muadib.FIDONET.ORG> Ed.Maurer@f7.n369.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed Maurer) writes:
=> >... I personally wouldnt 
=> >put them [Maxtors] in the same league with Core or Priam, but a step ahead of 
=> >the Seagate/Miniscribe crowd.
=> 
=>    Wait a minute! I thought Seagate drives were supposed to be some of
=> the best. Have I been misinformed?
=
= No, you haven't. In the PC world, Seagate is about as good as you
=get. Apparently Ed Maurer up there is the one who's been
=misinformed.

	There is a fellow who works as the PC hardware wizard for a large
	US government laboratory, and who shares his findings with the
	part of the world that checks into CompuServe.  He says that 
	Seagates are about as bad as you can get.  Micropolis, CDC --
	those are the good ones.
	
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