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- From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
- Subject: Re: 21M Flopticals?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.233221.2617@news.media.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan23.235135.18521@trentu.ca> <93023.214617U59985@uicvm.uic.edu> <ferch.727904592@swiss.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:32:21 GMT
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- In article <ferch.727904592@swiss.ucs.ubc.ca> ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch) writes:
- >In <93023.214617U59985@uicvm.uic.edu> <U59985@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
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- >>I think each 21meg disk costs over $10 right now. And you have to buy
- >>them in boxes of ten.
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- >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).
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- CompUSA here wants 30.00 per disk. Where can you get them for $10?
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