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From: absinthe@milton.u.washington.edu (Daniel Faken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: RE: 3.5 OD solution
Message-ID: <8036@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 17:13:25 GMT
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 acs020@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (acs020) writes...

  >Pinnacle Micro, has released a new 3.5 inch erasable optical disk drive.
  >The REO-130 is a SCSI device with a *28* ms seek time; each holds *128*
  >megs. List cost is $3000 for the drive & $130 for each disk.

  >This would be the perfect solution for the NeXT.

Isn't this a bit steep when we're currently about to pay (or so rumor holds)
about the same price for something with half the storage? (or, according to
further rumor, one quarter the storage) I don't recall the optical option
being $3000 either..