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From: declan@portia.Stanford.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Eraseable Optical Drives
Message-ID: <1990Jul17.043311.20221@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Jul 90 04:33:11 GMT
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Later this year, NeXT will announce a new system with (among many new features)
what will probably be a 512 MB, 32 ms optical disk drive based on Canon's
new drive mechanism.  No price has been set, but I'd expect it to be
comfortably under $2,000 - perhaps even closer to $1,500.
 
-Declan