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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: 29 Sep 90 03:39:34 GMT
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In article <872@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:


   Our Digital Audio expert says that there's this one little
   problem with DAT--the head assembly is only good for 1000 hours
   of use, and costs $400 to replace (mind you that retail on a new
   consumer DAT machine is around $700).  I think we'll stick with
   our 8mm Exabytes for a while, thank you.

					   -=EPS=-

Isn't Sony about to release DAT here in America?  I don't think it
will be a commercial success if that is all the longer the head
assembly will last; consumers won't tolerate it.  CD players used to be
expensive too.  The prices of DAT players will drop after the 2nd
generation machines are released.  40 (times $4.00) disks or 1 DAT
cassette(around $10)?

-Mike