[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[JF Mezei]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> I expect that the REAL reason was that DEC wanted to sell pre-formatted 
> floppies for $5.00 each when brand-X floppies sold for $0.50 each!

Being a good devil's advocate:

If most of those machines were on warrantee/support contracts, then
Digital would want to ensure that the use of lesser quality diskettes
would not damage the drives and require expensive service calls.