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From: glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: ont.general,tor.general
Subject: Re: Canadian Software Library
Keywords: Software, tapes, service
Message-ID: <3517@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 88 14:45:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.3517
References: <2982@geac.UUCP>
Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <2982@geac.UUCP> david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) writes:
>I'm thinking of addressing the tape question specifically. It's a
>royal pain in the ass to get tapes from the US. What I'm thinking
>of doing is setting up a tape library and duplication service.

Great idea.

>What I can do is provide these in various formats (1/2 and 1/4 inch)
>on a cost recovery basis. Doing a quick calculation, we should be
>able to put out 1/2 inch tapes for about $50, and 1/4 inch for $75.

This sounds like a very good price, you may want to double check your
calculations, and add in labour cost of someone in your organization (rather
than just your personal time - we tend to undervalue that sometimes). The
standard price for free software distributed on a tape seems to be
100 units of money, be it US$100, Aus$100, U.K.Pound 100.

By the way, should you not have posted it to can.general?
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