[net.micro.mac] $500 internal hard disk????????????

allison@convexs.UUCP (08/05/85)

Regarding a note posted a few weeks ago about a SASI/SCSI interface for the
Mac, has anyone actually TRIED one of these?  According to the poster, DMS
Design offers Xebec S1410 software sources and a host adapeter board that
plugs into the ROM sockets with one extra wire for $150.  He also claimed,

>If you have access to cheap hard disks and controllers -- you can have a
>hard disk on your mac for less than $500.

All this sounds too good to be true.  The address for the company was
	Fastime
	464 Marsh St Suite A
	PO box 12508
	San Luis Obispo, Calif  93406
or  {fortune, amd,dual,hpda,idi}!dmsd!bass (John Bass).  Any positive
responses are probably worth posting directly, but you can send me mail if
you'd rather (I'd summarize, of course).

Brian Allison	{allegra, ihnp4, uiucdcs, ctvax}!convex!allison
Convex Computer Corp.
Richardson, TX

jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (08/08/85)

> >If you have access to cheap hard disks and controllers -- you can have a
> >hard disk on your mac for less than $500.
>
> All this sounds too good to be true.

Actually, there was an article posted in the ARPAnet's INFO-IBMPC about
a month ago on just this subject; I think its title, in fact, was "A $500
hard disk".  (I don't know anything about the referenced company; just
thought I'd point out the article, though, since it was a sort of do-it-
yourself hard disk discussion).
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paul@unisoft.UUCP (Paul Campbell) (08/10/85)

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I mailed (USnail) Fastime about 10 days ago and have heard nothing .... I
will sumarize to the net when (if) I get a response

	Paul Campbell

	..!ucbvax!unisoft!paul