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From: mcguire@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire)
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Subject: Re: New OD prices (high!)
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Date: 28 Sep 90 16:07:33 GMT
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sfrank@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Frank) writes:
>The educational price for an Optical Disk is $149.  This is the same
>as the list price, apparently.  This looks like a bad sign for
>OD users (me).  Are there any 3rd party distribution channels 
>that would be cheaper?  

I really doubt that you're going to find the optical disks much cheaper
than that for a while.  The nice folks from NeXT didn't say this exactly,
but I gathered that Canon hasn't been developing further markets for the 
OD that would increase the production and lower the price.  I further suspect
that this is the major (and perhaps the only) reason you aren't seeing some 
sort of optical technology on the new cubes/slabs.

Tim McGuire
mcguire@cs.tamu.edu