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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: DAK tapes - some bargain
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 04:28:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 16 04:28:48 1984
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On tapes available from DAK:
>     All their tapes have the advantage of CHEAP - they sell only in lots of 10
>and they go for about $24 for FeO and $26 for CrO2.  They save money by making
>you insert the box labels, etc.  The shells are cheap,...
(and the parent article notes a few other minor drawbacks...)

OK, around here I can buy Maxell UD XL-II cassettes (CrO2 type) for $2.19
to $2.25.  The labels are already in the box, the shells are good, and I've
NEVER had problems with one.  So why are the DAK cassettes at $2.60 a good
buy?
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.