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Conference 7.286::atarist

Title:Atari ST, TT, & Falcon
Notice:Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting!
Moderator:FUNYET::ANDERSON
Created:Mon Apr 04 1988
Last Modified:Tue May 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1433
Total number of notes:10312

151.0. "The Hunt for Cheap Floppies" by PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ (Jeff Lomicka) Fri Jul 01 1988 16:53

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151.1Is your floppy drive VHS or BETA :-)MILRAT::WALLACEFri Jul 01 1988 17:1622
    I get boxed Sonys from USA FLEX (1-800-USA-FLEX) for the past couple of
    months they have told me that a US disk manufacturer has filed suit
    against the Japanese disk manufacturers (one or all?) which is
    why it is near impossible to get Sony disks in particular and other
    Jappanese made disks in general.
    
    I don't recall the name of the company who placed the suit.
    
    As of late I have been buying CITOH bulk DS disks at the Computer
    show/flea market. I think I've paid about $1.14 in quanaty of 50. The
    disks aren't marked CITOH but they are marked 2DD. Of course you have
    to pay the $5.00 entry fee to the flea market, but you usualy pay more
    than that for S&H on mail order. 
    
    This is the first I've heard of Sony disks made in the US.
    
      >>  "Does anybody have any experience with JVC media?"
    USA-FLEX always sends me a free JVC VHS video tape and as of yet
    I have not been able to get that "JVC media" to work in my ST's
    3 1/2" DS floppy drive :-)!
    
    	Ray
151.2Sam's or PaceNEXUS::MORGANHuman Reality Engineering, Inc.Sun Jul 10 1988 00:213
    Don't forget to look at your local wearhouse type stores such as
    Sams or Pace. I've bought DD/DS Sonys, 15 for $22.50.