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From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine
Message-ID: <886@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 88 03:41:04 GMT
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Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <13870@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer) writes:
>In article <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
>>One question: Why the hell have a floppy drive when you have a 256MB
>>removable erasable optical disk? 
>$50 is awfully expensive media for commercial software distribution when
>a few $1 diskettes are the norm (retail price comparisons, of course).

Streaming tapes cost about $50 (retail) and I get software on them all
the time. Hell when the Mac first came out a box of 3.5" diskettes was
over $100 when you could find them. 


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