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From: mike@ists.yorku.ca (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Cost of floptical s/w distribution
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Date: 25 Oct 88 07:21:38 GMT
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In article <10508@ncc.Nexus.CA>, lyndon@nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
| In article <1517@maccs.McMaster.CA|, dan@maccs (Dan Trottier) writes:
| | Plus it will add $50 dollars to the price of buying
| |software.
| 
| Why? It seems that most software currently ships on QIC tapes. These
| go for around $50 (Canadian). The floptical costs C$65 according to
| everything I've read. Fifteen bucks isn't going to make a damn bit
| of difference in end user price.

Not to mention having another spare 250 Megs of disk to use after
you're finshed with the 5 Meg or whatever software distribution.





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