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Comment Re:Lets talk legality (Score 1) 130

Simple selling below cost is NOT illegal, if you see cheap prices in the store, a lot of times they will below wholesale prices too. I remember buying a printer, at a Wholesale club, I saw the price, and emailed my nephew who sells computers, he said to buy the one from the store, since it was around 10% below the wholesale cost, and my nephew company get really good prices, since they sell a lot stuff. It's a way for the retailer to get into the Store, so they can sell higher margin items at the same time. I believe is called it a "doorbuster" or something like that, it been a few years.

Comment Re:at an OPTIMISITC writing speed of 1GB/sec (Score 1) 182

I know what you mean, if the media is cheap. I would buy one. My first floppy drive on my C64, disks cost me 2 bucks each, it was 2 buck when I got a 3.5 inch drive, it was 2 bucks a blank when I got my CD burner the first time, it was just under 2 bux a disk when I got my DVD burner and I will wait and see what the price for blanks when they sell this drive, if they ever do that is.

Comment Re:The textbook market is just as bad (Score 1) 212

I don't know about kickbacks, but I had teachers in the past that wrote the book that they would use in class. I know one teacher who got very mad when the class use a pirated version of the program need for a class, I wasn't taking the class but I know so one who was taking the class.

Comment Re:Gutenberg wasn't first either (Score 4, Interesting) 267

Wright Bros could bank and turn in there aircraft, there had been fixed wing aircraft before them but there was no way of turning it. That's is the difference getting off the ground and controlling once you were airborne. Unless one of the others can prove you could do more that go up and down in a straight line, I have to say Wright Brothers invented the airplane. Wing warping gave it to the Wright Brothers more than anything else.

Comment Re:Slow? (Score 1) 171

The 1541 (C64 disk drive) was backwards compatibly with the 1540. If they had dumped backward compatibly it would have been almost as fast as the 1571. Also the programming on I/O for the drive and C64 wasn't that great. Compare JiffyDos (ROM replacement) on the C64/1541 to see what the drive could really do. I remember load time of one program was 4 minute on a stock 1541, with Jiffy Dos it was around 20 or less.

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