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["Wendy Gulliver" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>]

Really?  We had several Dell's at work also and we had no trouble passing
floppies around between the Dell's and non-Dell's and I certainly don't
remember ever having a floppy "eaten". We did have a problem with Memorex
floppies dropping data and being particular (they would only work in certain
computers at all).  But that was the floppies, not the Dell's.   I had a
problem with one Dell once when the bean counters decided that we should set
the ac higher and it would get into the low-mid 80' in my lab.  My Dell,
there would occasionally just re-boot all by itself, but only when it got
oppressively warm in my lab.  I currently know several people with Dells
and they love them.  When did you have this problem with your Dell's?  What
years were these computers?

Wendy



> Now, I was going to say the same thing about Dell <g>  I wouldn't buy
> either.  I've had Dell and the kidlets have had them and they are a
> nightmare!  Plus they have a nasty inclination to eat floppies if you save
> anything to them, sort of <g>  Save it on Dell "a" and Dell "b" and
> everyother computer in the world won't read the disk.  We gave them all to
> the local school for their techie program to take apart.
>
> Lynda