21 Sep
2005
21 Sep
'05
1:03 p.m.
http://home.comcast.net/~kevin_d_clark/ems/
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21 Sep
21 Sep
4:36 p.m.
On 9/21/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Quite possibly the worst diskettes, except for "Brown Disk" diskettes that I
ever used!
8:36 p.m.
>http://home.comcast.net/~kevin_d_clark/ems/
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Quite possibly the worst diskettes, except for
"Brown Disk" diskettes that I ever used!
The worst that I ever used were Verbatim a few months before they came out
with "Datalife".
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
8:59 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
I never had a problem with all the elephant disk that I used
back then but the absolute worst that I ever saw was a batch of
CDC 5.25" disk that maybe half of them were really useable. I
would take anyones noname disks over them any day.
>http://home.comcast.net/~kevin_d_clark/ems/
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Quite possibly the worst diskettes, except for
"Brown Disk" diskettes that I ever used!
The worst that I ever used were Verbatim a few months before they came out
with "Datalife".
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com 
10:24 p.m.
On 9/21/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Quite possibly the worst diskettes, except for "Brown Disk"
diskettes that I ever used!
Hmmm, I've still got Apple II software on one of those disks. At
least it was still readable about 7 years ago.
Zane
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