[Coco] Brands Of Old Diskettes

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

I don't know where the rest of the company went, but Tandy Corp bought the consumer side of Memorex in the early 80s (which included all audio products).  The diskette side was definitely not part of the purchase.  That went to Burroughs (now part of Unisys).  (Well, it might be -- I haven't been keeping up lately).

I worked for Memorex (Memorex Drive in Santa Clara) in the late 70s (fresh out of the USAF), for Tandy for half of the 80s (in Vegas and L.A.), and for Unisys (back up to the Bay Area at the old Convergent Technologies campus) in the early 90s.  That was not a continuation of one job, I had several others (including self-employment and unemployment) between those gigs.
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

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From: Jim Hickle <jlhickle at yahoo.com>
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> --- 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. 
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> 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.  
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