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- From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.231433.7099@pro-freedom.cts.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 06:14:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Dec28.231433.7099
- References: <lewis.81.0@gto.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)
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- > One interesting point that comes from an article in the January '93 Amiga
- > Format:
- >
- > "Commodore have already pointed out to us that, to them, the cost of
- putting
- > a CD drive in a machine would be roughly equivalent to putting a floppy
- > drive in."
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-
- If they'd said "hard drive" instead of "floppy drive", I'd be tempted to
- believe them. As stated, however, it looks pretty silly. Check out the
- prices in computer shopper for Hard drives, CDROM drives, and floppy
- drives. CDROM drives are at least 6x more expensive than floppy drives and
- similarly priced to smaller but much faster HDs. Sure, CBM can buy in bulk
- but so what? Floppy drives bought in bulk would be pretty cheap too, so
- the relative cost should stay the same... at least 6x more expensive than a
- floppy drive.
-
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