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Re: 3.5" Erasible Optical Disk < $10/each

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From: John G Shirlaw
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 20:08
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In article <1992Apr8.062404.3380@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang) writes:
|> 	OD is dead due to cost, performance and reliablity problems. But  
|> how about the new 3.5 Erasible OD? Their speed is much faster than the  
|> origional OD and no caddy is need to hold the disk. As a matter of fact,  
|> they look nothing too different from the 3.5" Floppy ones. And I was told  
|> that Taiwan is going to mass-produce such disk for under $10/disk. For 128  
|> Megs per side of one disk and the comparable cost, shouldn't it be a  
|> reason to dust out the current 2.8 Meg FD like the new CD-ROM did to the  
|> old sad OD?
|> 
|> Gary

What sort of time scale are we talking about before 3.5" start shipping at this
price?

thanks 

john.
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