If you go over their prices, some of the drives are priced at >$500 just as they
were back when they were freshly introduced to the market.
While I'd be the last one to criticize them for asking whatever they think the
market will bear, I think it's a bit overboard to call them a "good" source,
particularly since they can't or won't tell you whether what you're after is
offered new or used, and since it's almost certainly without documentation.
(they claimed to have one set of drive documentation when I last checked, didn't
know which drive it was for, and they said when that one copy was gone, they'd
have none at all.)
I don't remember a time when 8" drives were priced as low as $200 until after
they long weren't available through distribution any longer.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: 8 inch floppy drives
> >On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >
> >> I've not purchased anything from them since '77, when I bought a couple of
> >> "digital" cassette drives from them. Their 8" drive prices are
> >>about what the
> > > drive prices were back when the technolgy was new and current,
> >though the drives
> >> may not be.
> >
> >Erm! The last time that I checked, Dick, admittedly not within a month
> >or so, they were asking $99 each for them. That is vastly different
> >from the prices of the '70s & '80s!
>
> Actually most of them are priced at nearly $200 or more.
> It's as if they are old stock and they've never changed the price.
>
> Jeff
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