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- From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: 21M Flopticals?
- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:43:12 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- Message-ID: <ferch.727904592@swiss.ucs.ubc.ca>
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- In <93023.214617U59985@uicvm.uic.edu> <U59985@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
-
- >The 21meg flopticals run about $500 and the disks themselves are very
- >expensive. If you can't even afford a Plus Drive, how can you afford one
- >of these?
-
- The original poster did not say he couldn't afford a floptical. His words
- were: "The AE Plus drive is an outragous $300 so I am investigating the
- 21M Flopticals, which seem to offer an ideal solution." I interpret this
- to mean that $300 is far too much to pay for a 1.44M (or even 2.88M) drive
- when you can get a 21M drive for not a whole lot more money.
-
- >I think each 21meg disk costs over $10 right now. And you have to buy
- >them in boxes of ten.
-
- I'm sure all floptical owners are hoping for lower disk prices (I would if
- I had one) but $10 for 21M is less than $0.50 per megabyte. That's pretty
- good compared to other media (e.g. 88MB Syquest cartridges are around a
- $1.00 per megabyte).
-