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From: simsong@WESTEND.COLUMBIA.EDU (Simson L. Garfinkel)
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Subject: Uses of CDROMS / WORMS
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Date: 4 Feb 88 12:09:18 GMT
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Barry,
	The $40/disc cost is quanity 100 prices.  Please remember that
I've had discs made.  If you own the machine, the price drops to $1 or
so a disc.

	If you wanted to make a CDROM right now, you could make 100
for about $4000.  This technology is here today.

	If you make 1000 disks, you can get the cost down to $20 each.
At 10000, the cost is $10 or so.  That is a disk you can sell at $30,
especially if you sell updates to it four times a year.

	The cost of the reader is also coming down.  You can now pick
one up for $700 if you try.  Since the electronics are nearly
identical to consumer CD players (one extra chip), the prices are
likely to drop further. Infact, Pioneer sells a unit that will play
both CDs, CDROMS, and Video discs, for a little more than $800.
Cheaper all the time.

	Libraries are one of the perfect envrionments for this
equipment. 

	Now say you could get a drive that could both read CDROMs and
record on WORMS for $500... This machine would replace your hard
disk...