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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition?
Summary: Okay...
Message-ID: <1917@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 Mar 90 07:32:18 GMT
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Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <39591@apple.Apple.COM> blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) writes:
>In article <1911@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>>In article <7248@goofy.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:
>>:The CD-ROM drive, last I looked, was less costly than, say, Toshiba's.
>>
>>Not true.  Apple CD-ROM drive retails for $1200, and its educational price is
>>$1000.  Toshiba's I've seen advertized for $700.
>
>We dropped the retail price on the AppleCD SC to $899 in the USA.  (I'm
>sure the educational and other prices dropped as well, but I haven't
>seen a press release about that.)  That probably means the "street"
>price is comparable to Toshiba's.

Thanks to the folks who have written to correct my price quote.  I was quoting
from MIT's computer store's price list, which is the March-April '90 list, so
apparently they haven't heard about the change just yet.  Would anybody who
has had experience with Apple's and Toshiba's drives like to comment?  I liked
the Toshiba I saw because it loaded with a drawer, not an awkward cartridge.
What I really want is a read/write/erase drive that does disks that can be
read by a normal CD-ROM drive (and yes, the hidden agenda: audio disk
players).  That will be a drive to have!

More in a bit...

--Mike