Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!gatech!bloom-beacon!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-vision!alberta!auvax!rwa 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 Lines: 17 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