Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!chapman From: chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Great big huge floppy disk? Message-ID: <2067@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 13:53:09 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2067 Posted: Sun Dec 28 13:53:09 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 18:41:09 EST References: <346@csustan.UUCP> <5396@ukma.ms.uky.csnet> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman) Organization: UNIXversity of California at Berkeley Lines: 20 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 -- Brent Chapman chapman@eris.berkeley.edu or ucbvax!eris!chapman