Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!killer!csccat!jack
From: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why Can't Microsoft Write Protect Their Distribution Disks?
Message-ID: <671@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 05:47:17 GMT
References: <175@optilink.UUCP>
Reply-To: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas
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In article <175@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
+
+ Or they can afford to put people to work putting 
+write protect tabs on the disks.  It takes all of about five seconds to apply
+a write protect tab to a disk, and even if Microsoft paid unskilled
+laborers $10/hour to do this, it would cost less than 20 cents to 
+write protect the V5.1 distribution.
+Clayton E. Cramer

Kinda of expensive considering that the disk cost ~20 cents or less,and
looking at my pricing sheet the disk cost .55 cents more to leave off
the write protect slot because everybody makes disks that way (with slot)
and to leave off the write protect slot causes them (disk mfgr) to
make a special run.

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