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Article #1661Re: What's A Fair Price for a Hard Disk?
From: L. J. Dickey
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:16
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:16
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In article <1992Apr06.164247.18706@cdsmn.mn.org>
plate@cdsmn.UUCP (Doug Plate) writes:
>What's a fair price for a USED ~40Meg external SCSI hard disk? I'm
>talking about the disk, box, power supply, AdSCSI+ and cable?
I suggest this formula:
Let A be the age of the drive, in months.
Let P be price of a comparable new unit today.
Estimate value of present unit as max { 0, P x (60 - A) / 60 }.
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Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
Internet: ljdickey@watmath.UWaterloo.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!ljdickey From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L. J. Dickey) Subject: Re: What's A Fair Price for a Hard Disk? Message-ID: <1992Apr16.031617.12906@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo References: <1992Apr06.164247.18706@cdsmn.mn.org> <1992Apr16.030903.12403@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:16:17 GMT Lines: 17