[Coco] Brands Of Old Diskettes

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 09 November 2008, Jim Hickle wrote:
>--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:
> The one brand of
>diskette that consistantly causes problems is Memorex.  Given the amount of
>advertising that Memorex did back in the 80's for diskettes and audio tape,
>I would have guessed these would be among the best brands.
>
>
>According to a newsletter from totalmedia.com a few years ago, Memorex never
> had a high quality product.  The adverts fooled me, thought.  Our company
> bought a dozen Memorex DVD-RAM disks a few years ago; nine of them wouldn't
> work at all.
>
Similar story here, bought a 100 pack of cdr's.  About 50% usable.  I simply 
added them to the list of brands I won't touch with a barge pole.  The parent 
company of memorex (its just a brand name they own) sold a scanner that sane 
had a driver for, so I bought one.  A month later it came up dead after a 
lightning storm, the only gear failure I've had since re-wiring this setup so 
it all runs through one humongus surge suppressor, which in turn feeds a 1500 
WA ups that feeds everything in here but the overhead lights.  Took it back.  
No warranty, I was using it with (insert distastful grimace here) linux.

So I went across the street and bought an Epson 1250u.  Now its 8 years later 
and it still works very very well.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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