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From: rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disks--where to buy?
Message-ID: <273@auvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 03:59:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: auvax.273
Posted: Wed Jul 15 03:59:26 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 05:02:31 EDT
References: <418@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU> <172200077@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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Summary: those are _good_ prices...

In article <172200077@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>, hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> kpmancus@phoenix says:
> >  I recently went to buy my first 10 3.5" disks for my Amiga locally
> >(in southern New Jersey), and was outraged at having to pay $20 for
> >10 single-sided disks.
>     you think THAT's bad?  when i bought my amiga, in october of '85,
> [they were asking] ~$70 for 10 sony DSDDs.  i was ecstatic when i found
> a local source of maxell DSDDs for $26/10.

Depart now, and do not be tardy, and go to your local place of
worship; you have much to be thankful for.  In this benighted region
(northern Alberta) the going retail price for 10 x 3.5" DSDD's is
$56; white-box generics are $32 per ten.  'Yes', you say, 'but those
are merely 75 cent dollars!'.  Truly, sahib; but I your humble
servant am paid exclusively in those very same 75 cent dollars...  

...!ihnp4!alberta!auvax!rwa  Ross Alexander @ Athabasca University