fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) (09/14/89)
New ad from Applied Ingenuity in InCider shows a side-by-side comparison of the OverDrive (external 20MB drive) and an AppleDisk 3.5. Both are about the same size. Two differences: the OverDrive stores about 25 times as much data, and costs about $25 less. The same issue mentions a $50 interface upgrade for InnerDrive owners... wasn't able to get through to them today, but owners of the drives may want to call in and check it out. -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ...!ucbvax!cory!fadden
fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) (09/16/89)
Spoke with the Applied Ingenuity this morning. Apparently they started making their cards differently in May of this year, so that they included: - An LED to show when data is being transferred [an in-use light] - 16-bit data bus (this update is for GS owners only) - Faster operation - Better data integrity (whatever that means) - A new owners manual (like 50 pages, if I remember correctly) The upgrade is available directly from Applied Ingenuity, and is under $50.00 (unless you have to pay tax in CA, in which case it's $53.25). Sooo... if you bought an InnerDrive for a //gs before May, call AI and ask about the High Performance Upgrade... [ interesting side note: first time I called them, the person I spoke with said that all of the sales people were out to lunch, and asked if I could call back later... ever wonder how they keep their costs down...? +atm ] -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ...!ucbvax!cory!fadden
lbotez@pnet02.gryphon.com (Lynda Botez) (09/18/89)
Applied Ingenuity is a fairly small operation... it's not uncommon for several
of the staff to be away, out to lunch, etc. etc.
I've been to their offices and know them fairly well. They make a good
product; are honest, helpful, and frankly, I wouldn't hesitate in purchasing
any of their products.
The upgrade is $49.00. If you own one of their Innerdrives, you can call in a
credit card number or send in a check, and they will mail you the card and the
new software.
In order to get the 50-page manual (I find this hysterical, since I bought one
of their first 40 meg drives and I got a xeroxed _one page_ sheet of
instructions (what could they possibly have written on those 50 sheets of
paper?)... you must return the old hardware once you've installed the new
card. It takes approximately 2 hours to reformat the drive. However, this
takes care of all the bad blocks.
The new card increases drive access approximately 4 times what the previous
hardware allowed. So it is worth the $50.
You can now partition the drive up to 8 different volumes (up from 2 on the
older version). However, you're still limited to GS/OS and Prodos.
Lynda
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