tsc2597@acf4.UUCP (Sam Chin) (02/26/85)
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For you people who haven't yet got your March byte there is an interesting
hard disk upgrade for the mac described in Jerry Pournell's chaos manor
column. It seems that current mac hard disks are all external and very
slow. So here comes "Hyperdrive". A short excerpt:
"What's Hyperdrive ?" Jerry asks
"Well, they open up the Mac and unsolder the 68000 processor chip and
solder in a socket. Then they put in a piggyback board that holds the
68000 and a disk-controller chip, and they put the hard disk inside
the mac's cabinet"
Cost: a cool $2795
Jerry says that the fact that you have to "hack a mac" is a massive
confession of design failure. But who cares for it is finally possible
to configure a high performance mac in its cute little box. When
they bring out Unix for it....
Sam Chin
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