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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: FOR SALE: 45 meg removable drive
Message-ID: <1535@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 14 Feb 90 20:35:51 GMT
References: <41144.25D6F695@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <1573@husc6.harvard.edu>
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Would you please post hardware-related stuff (and this includes for-sale
offers) to comp.sys.mac.hardware? Thank you. (Followups have been redirected
there.)

In comp.sys.mac, 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!).
< 
The price difference between MassMicro and Ehman is interesting, because both
use the Syquest mechanism.

Maybe MassMicro has a better power supply, or a better driver (I have a
MassMicro myself, using a well-written driver from a German company that also
puts Syquests into housings w/ power supplies, and I kind of doubt the latter).
Anyway, wanting $1000 more than Ehman means that they have a _big_ profit
margin.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs