Tarbell is making me insane

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Tarbell is making me insane
>   From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
>   Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:26:55 +0000
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>
>On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 20:28 -0500, Allison wrote:
>
>> I use a stack (about 200) of written once disks, they have sales
>> promo and utility on them and never distributed. Good media 
>> and easily erased.
>
>I bought a box of 500 DSDD floppies from a guy on eBay.  They appear to
>be new.  They seem to be pretty good quality too - the cases are a bit
>naff and plasticky but they actually work.
>
>I still don't understand how brand new 1.44M floppies fail after two or
>three uses, but the 20-year-old SSDD disks for my Ensoniq Mirage are
>still perfectly readable.
>
>Gordon

I had that a work once it was dust in the drives scaring the disks
after one or two uses.

Reaaon, PC suck air out of the box, where does it come in?  Any ways it 
can and through the floppy was one path.

Allison