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John Drescher wrote:
>>> There is something seriously wrong with this number. We buy DLT-IV
>>> tapes for less than $30US which is also about the same price for our
>>> LTO2 tapes.
>> The figure I quoted was retail plus local taxes, but it's still nowhere
>> near $120 each.
>>
> Perhaps the OP has an exclusive contract to buy stuff from one vendor.
> Around 10 years ago I was working for a cancer research team (same one
> I am now) that was in a hospital system that was going bankrupt. At
> that time we were using 8mm exabyte tapes. From the approved vendor
> these were $12.75 each while I could easily get them for $3.00 each
> online. This it was so frustrating having to pay 4 times the price but
> we had to comply.

I work in a place like this. Any wonder the hospital system was going
bankrupt? ;)

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