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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: New OD prices (high!)
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Date: 28 Sep 90 22:18:32 GMT
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In <14253@hydra.gatech.EDU> roy@prism.gatech.EDU (Roy Mongiovi) writes:

>It isn't a question of waiting for an OD standard or obtaining a faster
>optical drive.  I already own one of the original NeXT machines.  When I
>bought the machine OD's were $50 and they said that the price would go
>down as they started producing them in larger volume.

>Now they've TRIPLED the price of blanks disks.  Should I not feel shafted?

That's retail.  Do you know what educational discounts will be?
Probably not that much better, but it won't be as bad.  Most likely
Canon discovered that they weren't selling as many OD's as they
thought (or NeXT promised) they would.  If I was gonna get pissed at
anybody, I'd get pissed at Canon for not getting the price down, and
for them not getting a larger, faster drive out on the market, and
market it to NeXT well.

-k