Reliable 3.5" DSHD diskettes

[Doc Shipley]

Chuck Guzis wrote:

> I've noticed that what passes for 3.5" blank media nowadays is downright
> awful.  I've got a "work diskette" that's a Verbatim Datalife with a date
> code of sometime in 1997.  Like the Energizer bunny, it just keeps going
> and going.   Newly-purchased media seems to last about 3 months of use,
> tops.
> 
> Are there any sources for good reliable NEW media?

   Look in the Yellow Pages for used office supply or office liquidation 
dealers.

   There's an office supply surplus here in Austin that I cruise at 
least monthly for NOS floppy media.  I've bought various formats 5.25" 
disks there in the shrinkwrap for $0.25 to $1.00 a box, IBM-branded 2MB 
(1.44MB) floppies for $3.00/100, and recently about 6 10-disk boxes of 
DSDD 3.5" for $0.50 each.


	Doc