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Article #5954Re: SE question
From: Mark Wilkins
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1989 21:36
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1989 21:36
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In article <8400174@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Re: Expensive superdrives
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>How much difference is there between a superdrive and an IBM drive?
>It's sad when a 1.44 3.5" IBM drive is $89 from CompuAdd, and
>$350-$600 from Apple Computer, Inc.
Yeah, but the Apple drive reads both IBM and Apple disks.... since the
two store information in fundamentally different ways, it was a
difficult engineering task to create a drive which could read both.
-- Mark Wilkins
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!jarthur!wilkins From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SE question Message-ID: <2337@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 6 Oct 89 21:36:33 GMT References: <50037@<1989Oct2> <8400174@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Lines: 15