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From: SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Optical Disk price change
Message-ID: <90286.100426SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: 13 Oct 90 14:04:26 GMT
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In article <72100013@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu says:
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>Since I see no response to the question about the 100% price increase
>on the optical disk media, I thought I would post the two meaningful
>responses which I received:
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> [...stuff deleted...]

I asked a NeXT rep about the increase just last week. I was told
that NeXT was selling the OD's for much less than what they paid
for them, and could not afford to offer those discounts anymore.
Given the mood of this discussion (ie: people seem to feel that
the OD technology is going nowhere) you can take this as you may.
It does seem funny that NeXT drops the optical drive for a 3.5"
and then triples the price on OD's.

I have an OD cube so I've been trying to locate prices from supply
vendors. I've looked throught the Global catalog, they stock the
512M density OD's and charge about $200 in quanity of 1-4. They
didn't seem to stock the 256M density OD's and I would tend
to guess that there is a difference between the two. And, if there
were a difference, I would also tend to guess that the 256M OD's
are cheaper. I wouldn't want to guess at how much cheaper they
would be. BTW, does anyone know if there is indeed a difference
between the two densities? Will my Cube choke on a 512M OD?

Boy, am I glad now that I ordered 10 OD's from NeXT back in May!

Sal.
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