Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!dogie!anderson From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: $19 Floppy from NeXTConnection? Message-ID: <1991Mar2.191552.7363@macc.wisc.edu> Date: 2 Mar 91 19:15:52 GMT References: <4bnoZl600io1A9JkZh@andrew.cmu.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Lines: 29 In article cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes: >In article <4bnoZl600io1A9JkZh@andrew.cmu.edu> >tmab+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Mok) writes: >> They sell Toshiba 2.88 Mb floppy for $19 each. >I was over at the Math Dept of my University and a professor showed me >an ad for 1.44MB 3 1/2 floppies in lots of 25 or more for $0.75 each. >That amounts to >$0.52 per MB. At $19.00 for 2.88 MB, you're paying >$6.60 per MB However, as I understand the differences in the technology of the disks you're comparing, it's apples vs. oranges. The higher density disk is quite a different technology, more closely related to emerging floppies with *much* higher densities than to the older 1.44 MB disks. The higher cost per megabyte does not of itself address this. <> I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give <> you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please <> everybody. -- Herbert Swope -- Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888