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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SE question
Message-ID: <2337@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 6 Oct 89 21:36:33 GMT
References: <50037@<1989Oct2> <8400174@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <8400174@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Re: Expensive superdrives
>
>How much difference is there between a superdrive and an IBM drive?
>It's sad when a 1.44 3.5" IBM drive is $89 from CompuAdd, and
>$350-$600 from Apple Computer, Inc.


   Yeah, but the Apple drive reads both IBM and Apple disks....  since the
two store information in fundamentally different ways, it was a
difficult engineering task to create a drive which could read both.


                      -- Mark Wilkins