Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!olivea!genie!udel!princeton!phoenix.Princeton.EDU!rjmanno From: rjmanno@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Richard Joseph Manno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: 2.88 Mb floppy drives for PC Message-ID: <10942@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 19 Jun 91 18:15:38 GMT References: <14466@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1991Jun19.040845.25553@d.cs.okstate.edu> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Organization: Princeton University Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: phoenix.princeton.edu In article <1991Jun19.040845.25553@d.cs.okstate.edu> ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes: >From article <14466@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, by rob@cad4.lbl.gov (Barracuda): >> In article <1991Jun18.163955.20140@d.cs.okstate.edu> ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes: >>>From article <1991Jun16.232753.27867@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, by hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin): >>>> In article <2002@ole.UUCP> of comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, >>>> ray@ole.UUCP (Ray Berry) writes: >> >> [stuff about 2.88 meg disks deleted] >> > >There is however another alternative. The Syquest 40meg removable >hard drive (SCSI) price has come down some what. The last time I >flipped thru the magazine, there was an ad that sells the drive >(probably w/o the SCSI card) for $350. The setback is the price >of each cartridge. Most shops seems to be selling it at $75 each. If you consider what it would cost per disk to buy 40megs worth of 1.44 meg disks at a total price of $75, it would come to about $2.67 per disk ($75 / 28 disks --> 28 1.44meg disks is approx. 40megs). This doesn't sound too outrageous when you consider that what your getting is really a hard disk with considerable speed advantage over the equivalent floppies. Not to mention that it's a lot easier to deal with 1 40meg cartridge than 28 1.44meg floppies. Rich :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't believe anything I say. I'm just a student, so none of my knowledge is official. -------------------------------------------------------------------