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echo: 64_talk
to: Ben Dewberry
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1993-12-18 07:22:18
subject: Enhanced Density Disks

BD> about a year ago).  Anyway this drive seems to be the closest thing to
 BD> being a hard drive without actually being one.  Unlike a Ramlink extra
 BD> megs only cost a few dollars a meg.

A 1 gig SCSI drive (Seagate ST11200N) costs around $1600 now, giving a cost
of $1.60/meg.  That is the justification I use to never have to use
floppies again, as my el-cheapo 1.4 meg floppies cost $18 for 14 meg, a
cost of about $1.30/meg.  BFN.

Paul

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