8 Nov
2005
8 Nov
'05
5:53 p.m.
On 11/8/2005 at 8:43 AM Mike Maginnis wrote:
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I've used
them in the past -
over the several hundred floppies I've purchased from them in the past
few years, I've had a low (<10 per 100) failure rate.
Just trying to toss a few ideas around here...
I wonder if the situation has degraded to the point where there are only
one or two suppliers of the bulk (sheet) medium, so it may well be more of
the same thing regardless of brand. There used to be very visible
differences in coatings--some were almost translucent, where others were
opaque and color (light brown to almost black) varied. I don't notice that
any longer.
For those of you using VHS cartridges, has the quality of those also
deteriorated over what was available 20 years ago?
A couple of the duplicator supply places that I called about media could
only tell me that their stuff arrived in boxes labeled either "Made in
China" or "Made in Taiwan".
Cheers,
Chuck