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From: blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko)
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Subject: Re: 2.88 meg floppy drives
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Date: 28 Nov 90 18:06:22 GMT
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|>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.

The one and only reason for the price is that that is where the seller
currently believes he can maximize his profit in the targeted
marketplace.

The same applies for NeXT machines, Macs, optical disks, optical disk
media, computer memory, software of every variety, and most anything
else that gets discussed on the net.

	Yours for better high school education in the largest
	capitalistic economy in the world,

	Tom