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From: leonard@percival.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: TRS-80 Model III disks
Message-ID: <666@percival.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 02:06:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: percival.666
Posted: Fri Jun  5 02:06:44 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 05:20:54 EDT
References: <288@qtc.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@percival.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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Keywords: first drive; RS too expensive

In article <288@qtc.UUCP> glass@qtc.UUCP (David N. Glass) writes:
<The problem is it is a 16K cassette based system.  Most people would
<like a disk in it, so I looked into it.  What I found was that RS
<wants $399.99 for the first disk/controller/software!
<
<At a time when I can get a 20-30 meg hard disk for a IBM-PC
<for $400 how can RS justify leaving their hardware prices at 1977 levels?

Tandy's prices have always been higher than outside vendors.
_However_ this has little to do with your problem. They haven't
dropped the prices because they the cost of the boards hasn't changed.
They quit making those upggrades a few years back you know...

They do occasionally drop prices on upgrades on old equipment, but I suspect
that this is because they've used up the older boards. From all evidence,
they carry their inventory at cost *when acquired* thus if they've still got
old boards, they'll charge the old price.
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]		...!tektronix!reed!percival!!bucket!leonard
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."