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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do you *hate* Mac CD-ROM technology?
Message-ID: <4265@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 May 90 11:42:09 GMT
References: <4214@castle.ed.ac.uk> <2746@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Organization: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh
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In-reply-to: paulr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Paul T Russell)

In article <2746@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, paulr@syma (Paul T Russell) writes:
>From article <4214@castle.ed.ac.uk>, by nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell):
>> 
>> I hate the price. Around $2000 for a CD player? Nein danke.
>> 
>
>Is this for a gold-plated CD-ROM drive ? ;-)
>
>Current UK price for the Apple CD-ROM is 640 pounds. Take off another
>25% for educational purchasers. This is less than $1000 US...

Oh.

Of course, I was checking the CD-ROM sample player units in the
music technology papers (you know, the dealers who charge 500 quid
for a megabyte of memory).

>//Paul

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