From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Wed 31 Oct 2001 - 10:53:39 GMT
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:31:44AM +0000, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> Because of Scan's carriage charge, buying just that is going to cost you
> about IR£115 but that's still not a bad price, and if you're in the market
> for something else, or if you organise a co-buy, the carriage gets spread
> and so the price gets even better. You might for instance be interested in a
> DVD-RAM - UK£259 for SCSI, UK£372 for IDE (Those prices, in particular the
> IDE/SCSI disparity are NOT a misprint, at least, not MY misprint :-) )
Note; DVD RAM drives are not as useful as you would think. You can only
read back DVDs you write on the same drive. Not on the same model, the
same drive.
It's to stop you copying stuff, and giving it away to other people,
apparently. Like backups.
Kate
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