Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 2.88 meg floppy drives Message-ID: Date: 28 Nov 90 04:09:49 GMT References: <1990Nov27.235401.4109@engin.umich.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs-server.gac.edu In-reply-to: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu's message of 27 Nov 90 23:54:01 GMTLines: 21 In article <1990Nov27.235401.4109@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes: >Howdy. What is the educational price on the 2.88 meg floppy drives? Do they >use standard high density floppies? The ones that NeXT sells are VERY >expensive... The reason for the price is that they must use, again, a better substrate, which costs more. What you _can_ do, until the price falls, is fall back to 1.44M high density. You lose some convenience, but as of yet the media is much less than 1/2 the price, so it would just necessitate more swapping. In fact, most software will probably be distributed at that density, to start with, because that's where the upper-end of most duplicating services now reside (though there are companies who are moving to 2.88M, also). -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer (Stuart) GAC Undergrad (Horrid. Simply Horrid. I mean the work!)