godwin@ICSE.UCI.EDU (03/12/86)
From: Dave Godwin <godwin@ICSE.UCI.EDU> Hi there. I've had experience with OPUS diskettes in the past; most of the time these expereinces dealt with trying to recover data from them after they have died. Their data storage life time seems to be rather short, and I'd never use them myself if given an option. I stick with Dysan, 3-M or Maxell. As an aside, I've also had a lot of trouble with Datalife disks. Their life time is far longer than OPUS, but they seem to give more trouble than they are worth. I've used both of the above on the grey-and-white PCs, and on a couple of grey-and-white lookalikes. I've also used OPUS on Apple ][s, and on the Apple I've never had a problem. This is probably because the data density of an Apple formatted disk is low; the grey-and-white boxes I've used required much higher format densities, so this may be an indicator of what to do and not to do with OPUS disks. The above is based on personal experience, stuff that I have done and seen myself with my own eyes, and IS NOT to be taken as the opinion of my employers, my supervisors, my coffee mug, or my roommate Nuke the Rat. Hope this is of assistance, Dave Godwin University of California, Irvine godwin@icse.uci.edu