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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 13:39:26 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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- G. Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com) wrote:
- : True. Remeber the floptical drives a while back that everyone wanted
- : to become the "stock" floppy drive? The price of floptical disks
- : never fell below $20 each, thus it died.
-
- Then again, Flopticals weren't practically falling off shelves. Out local
- computer city had 50 or more units, five shelves high in three rows. Two
- weeks later - NOTHING.
-
- They got more in, gone again. Just now (after the Christmas assault on
- wallets) are they able to keep Zip drives in stock, and that was a common
- scene at most stores around here.
-
- As I recall, the floptical was special ordered by people excited about
- new technology. It seems MANY people have a Zip now.
-
- : CDROM production is cheaper than ever. And anyways, if you can't make
- : CDROMs yourself, make a deal with a larger production house to produce
- : and distribute your software.
-
- Not everyone wants to make a business of it. There's local club software,
- between friends, etc.
-