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From: beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Optical Disk price change
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Date: 12 Oct 90 02:27:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!beaucham    Oct 11 21:27:00 1990


The optical disk medium price has gone from something like $75 retail to
$149 retail.  Does anyone know why?  

We have a few left on campus selling for the old discount price of $57. 
But a question some people are asking is -- are the old ones compatible with
the optical drive on the new system?  I certainly haven't heard that they
aren't, and it doesn't seem reasonable that they would change the format, 
but it would be nice to hear from some authoritive source that they are,
in fact, totally compatible.

Jim Beauchamp    j-beauchamp@uiuc.edu