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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk prices (was: The New IBM Wonder-Toys)
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Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 13:47:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 13:47:04 1987
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In article <3288@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
>In article <1575@munnari.oz> mb@munnari.UUCP (Michael Bednarek) writes:
>>One can get 10 5.25" disks for $A15.
>
>And I can get 10 3.5" DSDD Sony disks for US$17.
>
>I don't know the conversion ratio, but I suspect that this makes the
>3.5" disks cheaper/KB. You wanna run the numbers through?

They were going for under $1 US in bulk pack form at the recent Trenton
Computer Show.  I think they were Panasonic and don't know what the
minimum qty for that price was.

Didn't mean to start a ruckus, but my sense was that they had become cheap
enough that media cost wasn't a real problem anymore...
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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