Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD-ROMs Message-ID: <3011@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 22:05:47 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3011 Posted: Thu Sep 26 22:05:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 07:23:42 EDT References: <830@homxb.UUCP> Reply-To: crandell@sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 16 In article <830@homxb.UUCP> rabbit@homxb.UUCP (P.REED) writes: >In "Dun's Business Month", Sept. '85, there is an article entitled, >Here Come Computer Compact Disks. >The same magazine article states that; >"The compact disks themselves are cheap to >make and getting cheaper. Factories stamp them out like cookies >from thin sheets of partially melted plastic at a cost of less than >$1 each. >It appears that manufactures are using a pricing factor of 14, is this >a standard value in the audio business? Just now catching on, eh? -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com