>> Still a reliable surplus vendor, incidentally:
>>
>> http://www.cadigital.com/
>*Snort!* One of the few places I've seen that makes the
>prices on E-Bay look cheap. Their target market is definitely
>*not* hobbyists.
Those 8" drive prices are for new-in-the-box never used drives,
incidentally. If I'm charging a customer $100 an hour to go on site
and service their machine, I'm not doing them a favor by installing
a heavily-used drive to save a few bucks.
And if you want to compare prices, maybe you want to look in the back
of a late-70's BYTE, see that a Shugart 801 sold for $350+ back then
to hobbyists, adjust for inflation since then, and arrive at an adjusted
price today of over $1000 for a new Shugart 801. California Digital's
prices are a bargain by this method. I certainly can't justify keeping
parts in my inventory for over twenty years!
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Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa_at_trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
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Received on Thu Dec 09 1999 - 16:51:10 GMT