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From: mb@munnari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Disk prices (was: The New IBM Wonder-Toys)
Message-ID: <1575@munnari.oz>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 20:56:58 EST
Article-I.D.: munnari.1575
Posted: Wed Apr 22 20:56:58 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 04:12:04 EST
References: <1571@munnari.oz> <1711@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Reply-To: mb@munnari.UUCP (Michael Bednarek)
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In article <1711@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <1571@munnari.oz> mb@munnari.UUCP (Michael Bednarek) writes:
>>And, as a flow-on, 90mm disks (as IBM calls them here) should now
>>become real cheap?
>
>Huh?  The diskettes have already been getting pretty cheap without IBM's help.

The normal retail price for a box of 10 3.5" disks is about $A60.
The cheapest source in Melbourne is $A43 for Nashua 1-sided (which I use
almost exclusively).

One can get 10 5.25" disks for $A15.

So, the price comparison per 1000k looks like
$4.3/880k*1000 = $4.88 ($43/10 3.5 " disks) up to
$6.0/880k*1000 = $6.82 ($60/10 3.5 " disks) versus
$1.5/360k*1000 = $4.17 ($15/10 5.25" disks)

But then again, there are the real nifty people using 5.25" drives at 880k
on an Amiga, which gives $1.70/1000k !

($A 1 ~ $US .71)