ditz@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Michael R Ditz) (11/21/89)
I am new to posting, but not reading, this news group. First of all
I apologize for accidentally sending my SIGNOFF attempt to info-apple instead of
info-apple-request. I got flames from people who's lives I seemed to
inconvenience by doing this. I am new to this and I apologize.
Now to my question. I have an Apple IIGS with one 3.5" Apple brand
disk drive. I would like to buy another 3.5" but don't want to pay Apple's
price. I just saw an add for drives by American Micro Research. I then
saw them priced by a company for $185. If anyone has any type of 3.5" drive
and wishes to comment on its quality, I would greatly appreciate it. I can
be reached using the address above.
Thanks,
Mikejohnr@pro-harvest.cts.COM (John Reilly) (11/23/89)
In-Reply-To: message from ditz@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU If it helps any, I have heard that in the quality department, next to Apple's own 3.5" drive, AMR's 3.5" drive is the way to go. I have heard that it is a very nice, quality drive at a great price. I am going to pick one up for myself in the next few weeks.
brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) (11/27/89)
In article <8911210204.AA19305@en.ecn.purdue.edu> ditz@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Michael R Ditz) writes: >disk drive. I would like to buy another 3.5" but don't want to pay Apple's >price. I just saw an add for drives by American Micro Research. I then >saw them priced by a company for $185. If anyone has any type of 3.5" drive >and wishes to comment on its quality, I would greatly appreciate it. I can >be reached using the address above. > > Mike The "unofficial" word from Ohio Kache Systems is that the AMR drive is the ONLY Apple 3.5 Drive compatible available. I had called with problems on my II Plus and their Kache Card, and the first question was whether I had an "Apple 3.5 Drive" or another 3.5 drive. I got the impression that the non-Apple 3.5 Drives give more problems (and my benchmarks have shown other drives to be 6.4 times slower than the Apple 3.5 Drive when attached to a Laser UDC), and OKS wanted to see if my problems were due to an inferior drive. I have the Apple 3.5 Drive, but the developer at OKS said the AMR drive was equivalent. I also got the impression that he didn't want me to repeat this (if you're listening, sorry :-), probably because OKS doen't want to be in a position of supporting the AMR drive. So take this recommendation for what little its worth. Brian Willoughby UUCP: ...!{tikal, sun, uunet, elwood}!microsoft!brianw InterNet: microsoft!brianw@uunet.UU.NET or: microsoft!brianw@Sun.COM Bitnet brianw@microsoft.UUCP