[Coco] Brands Of Old Diskettes

[Bill Barnes]

Hmmm, got some HP CDRs here, on a few burners I can burn at full rated speed, but on others, it has to be at a slower than rated speed or else some CD-ROM drives have issues reading them. Wonder if that is the same type of deal.


-Later!   -WB-    -- BABIC Computer Consulting.


--- On Sun, 11/9/08, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Brands Of Old Diskettes
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 7:30 AM
> 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.
> 
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