Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!cmcl2!ccnysci!alexis
From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Have you checked your floppies lately?
Message-ID: <1780@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 05:46:44 GMT
References: <1560@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
Lines: 25


Gee, funny you should mention this. I was discussing this very same subject
a week ago with someone who should know about this...

Me:  "Does it seem to you that the quality of floppy disk _drives_ has gone
      way down recently?"

Him: "What the hell do you think is going to happen when you take a $50
      drive and eliminate $25 worth of parts???"

Me:  "Oh."


In the past year I have noticed a large number of drives go out of alignment,
and I've seen a number with their tops heads broken. Looks like Apple is once
again shafting the customer in pursuit of a better gross margin.

Won't they ever learn? This may well turn out to be another problem of the
same magnitude as the bad power supplies. The big difference is that people
may never realize what's happening (unless/until their drives go entirely).

---
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu  (last resort)