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From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Re: 2.88 meg floppy drives
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Date: 28 Nov 90 17:46:49 GMT
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Scott Hess estimates:
>> 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.

The NeXT price for 2.88M's is $8, while I can get 1.44M's for $0.79 from
MEI.  This makes the price per bit of a 1.44M one-fifth that of a 2.88M.
Hopefully, NeXTconnection will offer the disks for a more reasonable
price right away, and once other manufacturer's adopt 2.88M, I'd expect
to be able to get them for about $2 from MEI one year from now.

Mark Adler
madler@piglet.caltech.edu