Double sided 8" floppy in SA800 drive

... which were extremely expensive, if I remember correctly. Here in Canada and the US, I seem to remember $ 50 for a box of 10 DEC RX02 media. I think that unformatted 8" media were about $ 10 for a box of 10 media and even pre-formatted RX01 8" media were very little more. Some companies were alert enough to sell pre-formatted RX02 8" media at a cost MUCH below the DEC price. And YES!, I also did the same with a DSD floppy drive in a company I worked for before I acquired my own DSD floppy drive. The DEC pricing model for supplies like floppy media and tapes was one of the irritating aspects of using DEC hardware. Hobby users usually found a work around. But I guess when DEC sold only thousands of systems as opposed to millions of Intel PC systems, the marketing model was a bit different. I think I remember a show on the History Channel which described the early efforts of hardware manufacturers. The successful ones lowered their selling price below cost in the anticipation that increased quantities would lower production costs. Their increased production did lower the costs and continue to lower the selling price. The companies which attempted to initially sell at a profit were never able to increase production sufficiently to match the lower costs of the companies whose top management took the long view of total supply and demand. Jerome Fine