| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
A new store called B.J.'s Wholesale opened in Westboro, Ma on Rt 9 near Duddie Ford. They have BASF and MEMOREX 3.5" DS/DD floppies at 12.49/box of ten (~$1.25 ea.) Lots of boxes. You must be a member to get in, but being a DEC employee makes it simple (just fill out a 1 page form, show them your DEC badge and your in.) This place has mucho stuff at (for the most part) great prices. It's a warehouse type store so most stuff comes in industrial sizes (floppies are single boxes). John
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| 1663.1 | BASF no good in my book | VTHRAX::KIP | No Dukes. | Tue Sep 06 1988 13:11 | 7 |
I'd think twice about BASF floppy disks. At school we had a lot
of trouble with their 3� inch and 5� inch diskettes, on our Macs
and PC clones, respectively. I also bought a pack of 3� inch diskettes
for my Amiga at a local computer store, and 6 out of 10 in the box
developed read/write errors after about 3 weeks of use.
Just my 2�
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| 1663.2 | CSC32::J_PARSONS | Like Lesser Birds on the 4 Winds... | Tue Sep 06 1988 16:30 | 5 | |
I can second the negative vote for BASF. I bought 30 of their 3.5"
DS disks when I first got my Amiga. Maybe 2/3 of them would format
correctly. I really thought my drives were bad but when I got some
bulk Sony DS disks they worked flawlessly. Never again will I buy
a BASF magnetic media product after this.
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