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Re: Disk Drives

From: Neil Palmer <neilp@dpslink.com>

> Oh ?  It just magically appears with no cost for writing or maintaining it
> ?  You're writing the cose for IBM for free ?   ;-)
> (I know - certainly NOT enough cost in it to explain the price
> difference).
>

that is, of course, what I meant. Even a $89 PC disk drive needs
a driver program that also costs money, but we are talking pennies.
In IBM's case probably not pennies, but certainly such a minute
fraction of the total disk drive cost that I doubt (as you do) that
that is what is driving the price up into the stratosphere.

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