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In article <3tmr53$kop@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, bootstrap1@aol.com (Bootstrap1) writes:
> 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

At least ten companies in the UK are selling 1Gig IDE drives for less than 250
UK pounds ~= $400. And this is the UK we're talking about.

Chris