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Re: Zip Demand - Mac vs PC?

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From: Bootstrap1
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 00:00

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jcgroves@netspace.net.au (John Groves) wrote:

> Before Zip, Mac users probably were not able to buy external storage
>capacity as cheaply as PC users. Extra hard drive capacity seems to have
>been significantly cheaper for PC users, at least partly due to the wide
>range of IDE drives available for the PC.  Mac users also do not have
>access to low cost tape backup systems, which are common for the PC. 

This part of your hypothesis is wrong.  Mac users can buy extra storage
capacity as cheaply as PC users.  APS is selling a 1080 MB internal
Quantum SCSI drive for $430.  Ads in the back of the latest PC World list
the same 1080 MB Quantum internal drive (presumably IDE) for PCs for $519.
 I suspect it may have dropped somewhat, but I haven't seen any PC
mail-order company selling a 1080 MB Quantum mechanism for better than
$430.

Nathan Tennies
Bootstrap Enterprises Inc

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Date: 1995/07/08
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