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From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts)
Subject: Re: ED (2.88M) disks for 3$ each
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Date: Wed, 15 May 91 13:17:32 GMT

In article <13209@dog.ee.lbl.gov> skankman@ux5.lbl.gov (David Schurig) writes:
>I was at the U.C. San Diego book store the other day and I checked
>the NeXT edu prices.  I saw 50 ED disks for $160 i.e. $3.2 each.
[...]
>to 1.4 $/Mbyte for the best HD disk deal I have seen. Considering
>the added convenience of higher capacity this pricing makes ED disks
>the media of choice in my mind.  Of course one still needs HD disks
>for carrying data to other platforms, but I am very glad my floppy
>drive plays these ED guys.  Good move Jobs. :^)

I'm quite happy to have the extra capacity and capability of the ED disks,
but where are you shopping for HD disks?  There's a place called MEI/Micro
Center in Columbus, OH, that sells Sony HD diskettes for like $.79 in lots
of either 25 or 50, I don't remember off the top of my head.  They should
be in 1-800 information.  

dan pritts