29 Sep
2006
29 Sep
'06
6:23 p.m.
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
There were some really terrible 5.25" DSDD (360K)
disks marketed. One type
was sold by Control Data (StorageMaster). If I see one of those in a
. . .
"Elephant" brand 360Ks can be problematical in the same way, as can the
"Precision" brand.
Just about every brand produced some bad batches.
The Verbatims right before "Datalife" were pretty bad. Was the trademark
"Datalife" created just to try to reassure us that they were no longer
going to jopardize the life of our data?
The worst 360Ks that I encountered was Roytype (Royal Typewriter).
Within a few minutes after writing and verifying, they would be blank
again. Hmmmm. could also get something like that from the wrong
coercivity, ...