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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Floppies
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Date: 28 Feb 88 00:35:59 GMT
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In article <2087@polya.STANFORD.EDU> rokicki@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>It has become impossible to get double-sided floppies at any reasonable
>price!  Anyone care to speculate on why?  I've tried all the distributors
>I know about.  I need Sony double-sided bulk, and no one has them, and
>there has been a severe shortage since November of last year.  Certain
>retail outlets have a handful of boxes, but I haven't been able to find
>any place with more than 200.

There is simply a shortage of ds/dd 3 1/2 in. disks. The reason is simple:
demand is too high: over one million PS/2s, half a million Amigas, 1.5
million Macs, and an "unspecified" number of Ataris.  A recent article in a 
Silicon Valley magazine reported the problem disk duplicators are having 
in getting ANY kind of 3 1/2 in. disks (not just SONY).  According to the
article things are going to get worse until next summer, when the Japanese
disk manufactures will finally be able to keep up with demand.  We found
BOSS disks in LA to be an OK distributor (213-650-0770), though currently it
is difficult to get any double-sided 3 1/2 for less than $ 1.50-1.60.

Good Luck.

-- Marco