You're from Germany, like me? Add it in your personal information plz, it's always good to know for users who aren't so good in English which person they may contact to talk in their native language.
I thought you mistaked 'Floppy Disk' with 'Compact Disc'  I know an advert from 1982 which showed a VIC-20 at a price of 899 DM (459 Euro) and the VC-1540 disk drive at 1748 DM (893 Euro!). 10 disks were costing 99 DM (50 Euro) these times 
In the most countries disk drives spread rather fast, especcially as the prices were getting lower. The only country were disks where not too often used was the UK, there they used mostly cassettes and cardridges. Does anyone of you know these crazy Microdrives of the Sinclair Spectrum and QL?
As we talked about high costs of disks and so, I still have a bill about two 650MB single-speed CD-R's - each costed 17 DM (8.5 Euro)! I think this was 1996. My first CD-RW burner costed 599 DM (306 Euro), it was a Yamaha CRW-4416 SCSI burner for my Amiga 4000T. I still have it and it still works!
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.
My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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