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From: bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis)
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Subject: Re: Purchasing 3.5 floppy disks
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Date: 1 Mar 90 23:45:35 GMT
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In article <402@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu.edu>, bigbroth@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (James M. Coleman) writes:
> The company's name is Products Plus and they are located in
>Santa Clara, California. Phone# 1-800-544-3472
	 [stuff deleted]
>I called Products Plus today (2/26) and they said they were out of that
					 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>brand for four weeks. I was offered their next better brand, still brand X,
 ^^^^^
>at 43 cents each for 150 or more. The company seems reputable and they

I got my load of disks from them just yesterday... I was amazed to find that
they had pre-labeled the disks for me... how convenient!  It seemed a bit
odd that a company selling disks at such prices would do that.  Then I
noticed the *second* label underneath... Carefully peeling away the top
label revealed a glossy label for Epyx's "THE GAMES" IBM version!  My disks
are all remnants from Epyx's demise!  Rather than remove the labels,
Products Plus covered them up.  The disks are fine, and since they're
guaranteed (by Products Plus), I won't worry...  but that was an interesting
discovery.

Now it seems their current stock of post-Epyx media is running dry...

I ought to pop one of those game disks into a clone and see if anything
happens... I wouldn't expect the disks to have gone thru duplication-
but you never know... Alas, I don't have an MSDOS machine to try this on.
(who uses MSDOS?  Not ME! :-)


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