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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Religion
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Date: 25 Sep 90 17:38:36 GMT
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In article <2444@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> jmann@angmar.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:

   I don't think the price of ODs can EVER drop enough to completely replace
   floppy disks. If I have something that I want to send to a few friends,
   I'm quite willing to put it on floppies (cost $0.30 to $1.00 each) and send
   it off to them. Even if optical disks dropped down to say $20, I would not
   be willing to just use them to pass information to friends. It's too
   much of an investment. They're great when you need that much data, but
   expensive overkill when you just want to transfer a few hundred K or
   even a Meg or two.                                                          

   Jim Mann
   Stratus Computer
   jmann@es.stratus.com


How about Digital Audio Tape?  They're about to hit the music
industry.  They should drop in price after a few million DAT cassettes
of Van Halen are sold.  Each tape holds about a gigabyte of data.  I
would say that they will be the perfect medium for software
distribution in another year. 

-Mike