tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen) (08/12/88)
Does anyone have any idea if the advertisement in MacUser magazine, for double sided, double density diskettes for 29 cents is for real? The company name is Media Source. Are these decent disks as they advertise them to be? :------------------------------------------------------------: : Tom Carstensen Usenet: tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM : : Mentor Graphics Delphi: CARSTENSEN : : GEnie: CARSTENSEN : : : : If you are sick and tired, of all your dreadful : : dimensions, let me stretch your TIME! : : - Time Operator : :------------------------------------------------------------:
Jonathan.Hirschman@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG (Jonathan Hirschman) (08/17/88)
I believe that the disks advertised for 29 cents are the older 5 1/4 inch disks. That could be it.
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/* Written 12:08 pm Aug 16, 1988 by Jonathan.Hirschm@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG in uxf.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */ I believe that the disks advertised for 29 cents are the older 5 1/4 inch disks. That could be it. ^^^^^ ... older?!? Some of us still have Apple //s and such, y'know. (and they almost certainly are 5 1/4) (as an unrelated recommendation, though: MEI/Micro Center has good DS/DD 3 1/2 for only 99 cents each. I've encountered very few problems with them (about one bad one in every 50 or so). When I ordered similar disks from Media Source (at 1.09 I think), I got about 10 bad ones. Hardly worth it.) mark thompson erstwhile ta univeristy of illinois thompson@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu
sam@gtisqr.UUCP (Sam Felton) (09/02/88)
Just to add to the confusion, a company called Precision Data Products in Grand Rapids, MI has 3 1/2" DS/DD floppies for 99 cents each, of which I have now ordered about 500, and have NEVER had any go bad. Yeah, it's probably a fluke, but I'm sold. Their number is (800) 258-0028, if anyone is interested. I have also ordered 5 1/4" DS/HD floppies for the AT clones at work from MEI, but will NEVER do so again, having found some 30% were un-writeable with errors. Sam F. (no signature yet)