tsc2597@acf4.UUCP (Sam Chin) (02/26/85)
<<<<>>> 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 allegra!cmcl2!acf4!tsc2597 tsc2597@nyu-acf4