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Article #258Re: ZiP -vs- EZ135
From: John Anderson
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 05:06
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 05:06
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In article <4dit02$b32@natasha.rmii.com>, mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) says: > >Dale DePriest (daled@cds9172.Cadence.COM) wrote: >: Wrong. EZ cartrides are bought individually or in packs of 3. >: These are misleading prices. Unit pricing for EZ is $20.00 and at a capacity >: of 135Meg the print is $0.14. Zip pricing is 3 for $50 or 10 for $150 >: which is being quoted above. > >I was quoting prices at my local stores including Computer City. I have >not seen these 3 packs of EZ carts yet and in single quantity they cost >(here) around $21 (either $20.95 or $21.95). I've seen people claim "$20" >but whenever I go I find that they are rounding down from the prices I >just stated (I guess adding that 95 cents really DOES work ;-) ). > >The point, however, is that there is no significant savings for EZ >cartridges over Zip. In Dale's posting he claims the capacity of the EZ is 135MB. However I believe that is the unformatted capacity. I always get 127MB from my EZ disks. Also, Maxwell I'm really sorry the prices are higher where you live, but I really do get EZ media for $20 at Egghead ($19.98 I think). johna
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.magicnet.net!usenet From: johna@magicnet.net (John Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: ZiP -vs- EZ135 Date: 18 Jan 1996 05:06:10 GMT Organization: Algorithm Engineering Message-ID: <4dkkg2$m3m@comet2.magicnet.net> References: <4bfgk7$of0@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> <global1.net-2612951954150001@ppp10.global1.net> <4bqhlq$m9p@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4c01ev$42p@news.ust.hk> <4c0r9m$ <4dit02$b32@natasha.rmii.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm1-00.magicnet.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+