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- Subject: Re: 21M Flopticals?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.142250.1@jaguar.csc.wsu.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 06:22:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: jaguar.1993Jan24.142250.1
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- In article <ferch.727904592@swiss.ucs.ubc.ca>, ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch) writes:
- >>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).
-
- Anyone know who is selling them for this price? Last time I looked they
- were $20-30 each!!
-
- Richard.
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