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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FOR SALE: 45 meg removable drive
Message-ID: <131768@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 22:38:25 GMT
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In article <1573@husc6.harvard.edu>, fry@brauer.harvard.edu (Goggles Paizsano) writes:
> In article <41144.25D6F695@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> MURDOK.THE.MERCILESS@f54.n382.z1.FIDONET.ORG (MURDOK THE MERCILESS) writes:
> >new 45 meg removables are sellling for $750
> 
> *Ehman* drives, which are thought to be of lesser quality
> than Mass Micros, are selling for $750.  Mass Micros list
> for over $1800.  Also, I'm offering 3 hard drive cartridges
> cartridges which retail for $150 a piece (plus a huge library
> of digitized photographs!).

Both Ehman (and Cutting Edge, for perhaps non-obvious reasons) and
Mass Micro use the same Syquest mechanism for their 45 removables.
I think normal prices for the MM drives are closer to $1200 around
here.

> The value of different items is open to debate, but you can't
> complain to Mercedes for selling their cars for six times the price
> of a Hyundai.

I'll bet you could if they were using Hyundai engines!

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