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On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, Sean Chou wrote: > > >this to me is an idiotic comment. A 1.2 gigabyte 2.5" disk is a pretty > > >amazing gizmo, I find it perfectly reasonable to be paying $150/meg for > > >something at this cutting edge of technology. > > Actually, I find this an idiotic comment. If the drive is sold > at $750 in quantity, there is no reason for us to pay over twice > that except for the fact that some idiots are willing to pay the > price (and probably have their department's money at their > disposal). Precisely. If the drives _were_ in fact the price IBM wants for them, it would be once thing. However the real inflation in this equation is: (1) Injection molded case (1) unusual AMP connector (1) piece of cable. In any quantity, these things must cost IBM all of $30 to make, and that's being real generous. But IBM takes a drive they sell ALONE for ~$800 to resellers and puts a plastic case around it to make it _$1800_. I'm familiar with _value_ added, but this would be, what? Mortgage added?