TSEMM@ALASKA.BITNET ("Ed 'Apple Guru' Moore") (11/30/89)
I'm looking for a hard drive for my apple IIGS computer. I am looking for the cheapest setup for a 40 MB drive. If anyone know a realy cheep hard drive, could you send it to me. Maybe we could see who could configure the cheapest hard drive on the list......? -Ed
unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (11/30/89)
In article <8911300316.AA07157@apple.com> <TSEMM%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu> writes: >I'm looking for a hard drive for my apple IIGS computer. I am looking for >the cheapest setup for a 40 MB drive. If anyone know a realy cheep hard >drive, could you send it to me. Maybe we could see who could configure >the cheapest hard drive on the list......? -Ed Here, I'll start spewing some prices I've found in last }iSunday's newspaper.. There are probably CHEAPER ones but I'm being too lazy to go get a whole ton of papers and look through them. This is from Nov 19th's San Jose Mercury News.. an 82 megabyte Seagate drive for $549.. The drive next to it says "RLL" and this one says nothing so I'm guessing it's SCSI. Always check up on me to make sure!! (unless you have an ESDI/SCSI or RLL/SCSI converter which a housemate_who_works_at_IBM says are easy to get) More random hard drive prices: Seagate 82 meg 28 ms 549 40 meg 24 ms 3.5" 389 40 meg 28 ms 349 20 meg 3.5" 249 20 meg 199 Miniscribe 72 meg 36 ms 569 157 meg --ESDI-- 1195 (wow expensive! I see 120 meg for 800) 40 meg 28 ms 339 that's enough for now. -- unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu
n8948315@unicorn.WWU.EDU (arthur morgan) (12/06/89)
One thing you need to be careful about when looking at seagate drives is their nomenclature. In choosing a SCSI drive (which I assume is what you are thinking of), you need to look for drives that have an 'N' at the end of their name. Examples would be: ST-125N, ST-138N. Be prepared to pay a little more for one of these drives, but remember that that is because these drives have the SCSI hardware built in. The straight ST-125, ST-138 etc. drives are RLL drives, and thus won't work with your SCSI host adapter card. Now, if you are thinking of building your own hard drive subsystem, you can get some excellent instructions by writing to the Big Red Computer Club and requesting a copy of February's (of this year) Scarlett Letter. (I believe they want $2 for it.) There is a good article there describing exactly what components you will need, some suggestions as to where to get them, and instructions on how to put the thing together. Good luck, and E-mail me if you need more info. Arthur Morgan 'n8948315@unicorn.WWU.EDU' or '8948315@nessie.WWU.EDU'