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From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Apple hard drive rumour
Message-ID: <1957@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 16:44:25 EDT
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In article <30@ucdavis.UUCP> Chris Borton says:

> I don't have the actual message from CompuServe since I got it by word of 
> mouth, but I thought I'd pass it along anyway: The big news at MacBoston 
> came from the Boston Club, who got it from inside apple, that Apple will 
> release their 20M hard drive within 30 days, and will cost UNDER $700!!!  

This is the kind of rumour that does damage by creating false expectations.
While my sources of rumours indicate that Apple is still targeting release
of the hard disk in October, I think that the $700 price is completely
out of the question.  A more realistic estimate would be between $1500
and $2000.  My hope is that the price will be closer to $1500, my
expectation is that it will be closer to $2000.

If you want to do the arithmetic yourself, just look at the prices of
20 Meg disks for the IBM PC line and add some allowance for the cost
of a controller, power, and packaging.  Then multiply by pi to get a
reasonable selling price.  The result will be well above $700.
-- 
Stephen J. Langdon                  ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!sjl

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