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From: chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Great big huge floppy disk?
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Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 13:53:09 EST
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In article <5396@ukma.ms.uky.csnet> sean@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) writes:
>Yeah.  Why do Amiga compatable hard disk drives cost THREE TIMES AS MUCH
>as the same capacity IBM PC drives (with controller).  Is there three times
>as much magic inside?

Unfortunately, it's not magic; it's just economics.

Companies selling PClone hard drives can buy them from manufacturers at much
lower prices than companies selling drives for Amigas, simply because there are
a lot more PClones out there, and the PClone-serving companies can buy in much
larger quantities.  Also, there's a _lot_ more competition in the PClone market
than in the Amiga market, which leads to still lower prices..


Brent

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