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From: brad@optilink.UUCP (Brad Yearwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Double-sided Canon ODs - Gulko delivers
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Date: 8 Jan 91 18:49:03 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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There have been several inquiries and complaints posted recently about
availability of optical media for the NeXT.  My own disk space crisis was
nicely resolved yesterday with the arrival of a couple of double-sided Canon
ODs from Brad Gulko, who has posted a note or two here.  The disks cost $182
each plus a few dollars for shipping, insurance, and packing, and arrived
in around a week (spanning the New Year holiday).  This compares quite
favorably with the $135 I paid for a single-sided OD from Businessland in
November.  Both sides of both of the new ODs initialized with no problems
at all.

Details can be had from:

  Brad Gulko
  170 Hagemann Ave.
  Santa Cruz, CA   95062

  turing@saturn.ucsc.edu

An amusing note: the information pamphlet which Canon provides in the plastic
case warns that ODs are strategic goods subject to COCOM export controls.
Strange that I didn't see this warning on any of the rack full of 8mm video
tapes over at the local Wherehouse!

Brad Yearwood   {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad            Petaluma, CA