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From: yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: $19 Floppy from NeXTConnection?
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.205421.13550@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 91 20:54:21 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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tmab+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Mok) writes:

>I saw the ad. by NeXTConnection on the NeXTWorld magazine.
>They sell Toshiba 2.88 Mb floppy for $19 each.  I thought that was
>a typo, and called them up today.  Well, it wasn't a typo.  It is $19
>each!  Why would anyone want to buy the floppy from them, if they
>can get them at cheaper prices from NeXT?

>Nevertheless, I praise the honesty of the company - the salesman
>even told me to get the disks from NeXT.

According to the NeXT price list, 5-pack 2.88mb floppy disks cost $39
(academic price $27) and 50-pack disks cost $195.
BUT I heard they were not available! Where can I buy cheap disks?

-- 
Noritake Yonezawa [yonezawa@cs.uiuc.edu]
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign