Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site crystal.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!crystal!bill From: bill@crystal.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: floppy info wanted Message-ID: <509@crystal.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 22:03:08 EDT Article-I.D.: crystal.509 Posted: Thu Sep 26 22:03:08 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 10:11:51 EDT References: <280@lzwi.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 37 > Another topic of interest is the places in the back of Macworld that sell > diskettes at almost unbelievable prices. Are they ok (are the "Sony" disks > for $20 a box any good)? Some of my friends and I just bought 200 Sony disks at $2.02 each (including shipping) from one of the ads in Macworld (The company is called Disk World, they also advertise in Computer Shopper). This was my second order; I'd gotten 50 from them when the price was $2.28 or so. I have had one "bad" (squeeky) disk out of the first 50, one out of the second batch. I recommend the company (based only on my experience with them). For me, the disks (sony single-sided) have been much more reliable than the Apple disks; of 40 Apple disks, I've had to get replacements for 4. Memorex, believe it or not, says their disks "are alright as long as you don't use them in the external drive" ! ! ! ! One insurance company here in Madison returned quite a few (not a truckload, as Illinois apparently did, but at least several thousand disks) due to high failure rate. I bought a box of memorex. with repeated returns, I had seen sixteen disks before I had 10 that worked (the bad ones didn't just squeek, they made that awful clicking/grinding noise) On the other hand, some friends swear by their memorex disks. I would never buy another. bill -- William Cox Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin, Madison WI bill@uwisc ...{ihnp4,seismo,allegra}!uwvax!bill