jayf@islenet.UUCP (Jay Fields) (06/25/85)
I read in today's Wall Street Journal that Steve Jobs' transfer will possibly result in General Computer Corp. finally being able to get some kind of cooperation from Apple regarding warrantees. Hyper-drive has long been considered on of the better alternatives for a Mac Hard disk due to the fact that it interfaces internally so avoids the 230k baud RS422 bottle-neck; however, Apple has said that such modification to the motherboard (as are required to install the drive) would void the warantee. This not only meant voiding any 90 day post sale warantee, but voiding the little-known-about credits dealers get for sending in used mother boards also. The bottom line was that if you had a hyper-drive and the mother board went South after the regular GCC 1 year warantee expired, it looked like you'ld get hit w/ a $500 repair bill instead of the adjusted $200 bill from the turn in.... it's good news anyway...unless you work for one of the other fine companies like Iomega who adhered to Apple's (Jobs') guidelines from the beginning and have built products that will use one of the two 422 ports. How about it IOMEGA, any possibility of an *internally connected* bernouli box??? -cheers- j fields