Vintage Scopes

From: J.C. Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
Date: Sat Oct 12 22:14:00 2002

        Two things: Dysan disks, while reliable, were considered incredibly
abrasive. There was an independant study done by a drive manufacturer,
Qume, IIRC, that strongly recommended not using Dysan. Verbatim diskettes
were only used when you wanted to be sure no one, including yourself, would
ever read the media again. Verbatim became better many years later, but
they were left with a major stigma.

        Maxell was my personal media of choice. I used Maxell 8's, 5.25's, 3.5's,
cassette, reel to reel, 4mm, 8mm, and on a few rare occasions, 9 track.
I've had far fewer problems with Maxell media than anything I've ever used.

        --John

-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Eric Smith
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 23:01
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Vintage Scopes


"Robert F. Schaefer" <rschaefe_at_gcfn.org> wrote:
> ROFLMAO. I've heard that punchline before, but I think this is the
> first time I've ever heard of it being used In Real Life. Maybe you
> paraphrased them? :)

I don't recall their exact wording, but they weren't trying to be the
least bit subtle about it. They had no intention of honoring their
warranty, and this was how they weaseled out of it.

For some years I had good luck with Dysan diskettes, which were quite
good. Then Dysan was acquired by another company, and the quality
went seriously downhill.
Received on Sat Oct 12 2002 - 22:14:00 BST